New Delhi: A Supreme Court bench led by Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant on Tuesday (February 17) highlighted the issue of lawyers submitting petitions drafted with the help of artificial intelligence (AI) containing cases citations which are fake. “We are alarmed to reflect now- some of the lawyers have started AI to draft. It is absolutely uncalled for,” said CJI Kant, reported LiveLaw. The bench also comprised of Justices Joymalya Bagchi and B.V. Nagarathna.Justice Nagarathna gave an example of one such instance when she recently came across a citation “Mercy v. Mankind”, which never existed.CJI Kant said that another such incident had taken place in Justice Dipankar Datta’s Court, wherein “not one, series of such judgements were cited.”Expressing concern over the usage of AI, Justice Nagarathna said that there are also instances wherein the citation would be correct, but the fake quotes are attributed to the judgment, which created an additional burden on the part of judges, reported Livelaw.Continuing the discussion on the issue, Justice Bagchi said that in recent times, the art of legal drafting has suffered a setback in recent times. He observed that Special Leave Petitions (SLPs) these days mostly contain quotations from judgments.Justice Bagchi recalled an earlier generation of advocates, wherein stalwarts such as senior advocate Ashok Kumar Sen were masters of drafting, which led to their pleading being precise, concise and original.Earlier, the Bombay high court had imposed costs on a litigant for citing AI-generated fake citations.