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 the ITAT to consider the petitioner’s request for transfer to another bench.