Bengaluru I-T tribunal reassigns case after finding order ‘AI-driven’

The income tax appellate tribunal (ITAT) at Bengaluru recently reassigned a case to another bench after it emerged that the order passed by the previous one was “AI-driven.”

The reassignment by the ITAT president follows an interim order by Justice M Nagaprasanna of the Karnataka High Court in August in response to a writ petition by the BuckEye Trust, a Bengaluru-based nonprofit. The Justice had restrained a judicial member of the tribunal from hearing the nonprofit’s case after its order appeared to be AI generated. He had, however, allowed…