# Legal Research — Niyam > AI legal research for India: ask in plain English over 72,000+ Supreme Court and High Court judgments and the statute book. Every answer cited to a primary source and checked for good law. Ask the way you'd ask a senior colleague. Niyam reads Indian statutes, rules, and judgments to answer in plain English, then shows you the exact sections and cases it relied on — so you verify before you rely. ## What you can do - Plain-English questions over 72,000+ Indian judgments and the statute book - Every answer linked to the section or judgment it came from - Good-law signals so you never cite an overruled precedent ## Capabilities - **Ask a real question, get a cited answer** — Type the question you actually have. Niyam reads the relevant statutes and judgments and answers in plain English, with the controlling authority shown alongside — not ten blue links you still have to read. - **Citations you can open and check** — Every proposition carries its authority. Open the cited section or judgment, read the exact paragraph, and confirm it says what Niyam says — because in legal work the source is the product. - **Know a precedent is safe before you rely on it** — Niyam surfaces how later courts have treated a judgment — followed, distinguished, referred, or overruled — so an overruled citation never reaches your submission. When the law has moved on, it points you to the authority that now governs. - **Search 72,000+ judgments and the statute book** — Behind every answer is the full corpus — central and state Acts, rules, and judgments — indexed so the relevant authority surfaces even when it's phrased differently from your query. No more missing the case that used the other word. ## How it works 1. **Ask in plain English** — Pose your question the way you'd ask a colleague. Niyam reads Indian statutes, rules, and judgments to understand exactly what you mean. 2. **Get a cited answer** — Every answer comes grounded in primary sources — sections, rules, and judgments — with citations you can open and verify yourself. 3. **Verify and act** — Read the source, confirm it's still good law, then draft from it or save it to the matter — without leaving Niyam. ## Frequently asked questions ### Where does Niyam's research come from? Indian primary sources — central and state Acts, rules, and judgments of the Supreme Court and High Courts — indexed from public records. Niyam answers by retrieving from that corpus rather than free-text guessing, which is why it doesn't invent cases the way a general chatbot can. Every answer links back to the source so you can read it yourself. ### Does it check whether a judgment is still good law? Yes. Niyam surfaces a precedent's treatment history — whether later courts have followed, distinguished, referred to, or overruled it — so you can see at a glance whether a case is safe to cite. When a judgment has been overruled, it points you to the authority that now governs. ### Can it find a case if I don't know the citation? Yes. Ask in plain English and Niyam finds the authority by the legal issue, not just the keywords — so it surfaces the case on point even when it's phrased differently from how you searched. You can then open the judgment and confirm it. ### Is Niyam Research legal advice? No. Niyam provides legal information and research grounded in primary sources. It does not create an advocate–client relationship or replace advice from a qualified advocate. You remain responsible for verifying every citation and exercising professional judgment. ### Which courts and statutes are covered? Judgments of the Supreme Court and High Courts, plus central and state Acts and rules. Coverage keeps expanding; the corpus already runs to more than 72,000 judgments alongside the statute book. ### How fast is it? Seconds from question to a cited answer. The point isn't only speed, though — it's reaching authority you can defend in seconds instead of spending an afternoon to get to the same place. ### Can I trust an AI not to make up a case? Niyam answers by retrieving from a corpus of real Indian judgments and statutes, then citing what it relied on — it doesn't generate citations from nothing the way a free-text chatbot can. If a case is cited, it exists and you can open it. The discipline of the product is that every claim carries a source you verify, so you never have to take an answer on faith. ### How does Research fit into the rest of my work? Research is the entry point to the rest of Niyam. Once you've found the authority, you can check its good-law standing, translate it if it's in another language, draft from it, and save it to the relevant matter — without leaving the workspace or re-pasting the citation. The answer you trust becomes the starting point for the work that follows. ### Is my research private? Yes. Your queries and saved research stay private to your account. Niyam is built for the confidentiality legal work demands — your work product is never sold and never used to train public models. ## Get started Create your Niyam account in under a minute — ₹100 to start, 200 credits to try everything. Ask your first question and see the authority behind every answer. Start your ₹100 trial at https://app.niyam.ai/register — 200 credits to begin, cancel anytime.