NEW DELHI — Emphasizing the urgent need to shed colonial-era legal frameworks, the country's top judge announced that a new "Swadeshi jurisprudence" powered by indigenous artificial intelligence will soon modernize the way the legal system's 5 crore pending cases are indefinitely delayed.

The remarks, delivered at the Oxford Union to project an image of a technologically advanced and self-reliant judiciary, reflect ongoing calls for "Indianisation" first initiated in 2023. According to officials, the indigenous AI ecosystem is expected to seamlessly integrate with the judiciary's existing infrastructure of ceiling-high paper files, procedural complexities, and severe digital access barriers in rural areas.

"For too long, we have relied on a colonial legacy of archaic rules to keep cases stalled for decades," said a senior registry official, noting that concrete implementation remains a long-term goal. "With our own context-specific Swadeshi technology, we can achieve these identical delays using algorithms rooted deeply in Indian realities."

While the technological integration remains firmly in the "underway" phase, officials confirmed that citizens with decades-old property disputes can take immediate pride in knowing their unread files are now part of a modern, forward-thinking national legacy.