IndianBailJudgments-1200 is a high-quality, structured dataset comprising 1,200 annotated Indian bail-related court orders spanning five decades (1975–2025). It captures granular legal information across 78 courts and 28 regions, including crime types, IPC sections invoked, judge names, legal issues, bail outcomes, and bias indicators.

Designed for use in legal NLP, fairness analysis, and judicial research, this dataset enables exploration of legal reasoning patterns, procedural parity, and systemic bias in Indian bail decisions.

It supports tasks such as text classification, summarization, document question answering, and legal transparency benchmarking.

• indian_bail_judgments.json — Main JSON dataset (1200 objects)
• indian_bail_judgments.csv and indian_bail_judgments.xlsx — Tabular versions
• IndianBailJudgments-1200_PDFS/ — Folder containing 1200 corresponding court PDF files (case0001.PDF to case1200.PDF)
• summarized_stats.txt — Statistical summary of dataset

Total Cases: 1200
Years Covered: 1975–2025
Courts: 78
Regions: 28
Crime Types: 12 (e.g., Murder, Fraud, Cybercrime...)
Bail Outcomes: 736 Granted, 464 Rejected
Landmark Cases: 147
Bias Flagged: 13 cases
📍 See summarized_stats.txt for full breakdown.

Each JSON object includes:

• case_id, case_title, court, date, judge
• ipc_sections, bail_type, bail_outcome, bail_cancellation_case, landmark_case
• accused_name, accused_gender, prior_cases, crime_type
• facts, legal_issues, judgment_reason, summary
• bias_flag, parity_argument_used, region, source_filename

• Legal NLP tasks (summarization, extraction, fairness)
• Judicial transparency & criminal justice research
• Law school curriculum & annotation training

Released under CC BY 4.0 License
You are free to use, adapt, and redistribute. Please provide appropriate credit to the authors.

• Sneha Deshmukh (deshmusn@gmail.com)
• Prathmesh Kamble (prathameshk990@gmail.com)

@misc{indianbail2025,
  title  = {IndianBailJudgments-1200: Annotated Dataset of 1200 Indian Bail Judgments},
  author = {Sneha Deshmukh and Prathmesh Kamble},
  year   = {2025},
  url    = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/SnehaDeshmukh/IndianBailJudgments-1200},
  note   = {Dataset publicly released under CC BY 4.0 License}
}