Punjab & Haryana High Court Disposes LLM Student's Plea Against Jindal Global University Declaring His Answer-Sheet As 'AI-Generated'

The Punjab and Haryana High Court on Monday disposed of an LLM student's plea challenging the decision of the OP Jindal Global University to declare his submission in an exam as "AI-generated." 

Kaustubh Shakkarwar, a lawyer by profession had filed the writ petition seeking quashing of the decision of the "unfair means committee" wherein he was failed in the subject as his answer-sheet was declared as "AI generated"

Justice Jasgurpreet Singh Puri, considering that the University has issued revised transcript passing the student in the concerned subject, rendered the plea as infructous.

The University had alleged that Shakkarwar had submitted an "AI generated" submission for the subject "Law and Justice in the Globalizing World" and thus it marked him "Failed" in the subject.

Shakkarwar contended in the plea that the submission is his own creation and requested the University to provide specific rule which prohibits the use of Al. He claimed that the University failed to provide any such document.

"Section 2(d)(vi) of the Copyright Act, 1957, makes it amply clear that, arguendo, if the Petitioner did even use AI, the copyright of the artistic work would lie with the petitioner, and thus the allegation of violation of copyright, fails,” he added.

The petition had stated that he also filed protest against the "Unfair Means Committee"' decision but after a delay of 4 months, the University informed that the appeal was dismissed.

Case title: Kaustubh Anil Shakkarwar v. Jindal Global Law School & Ors.

A detailed order is awaited.