Building the compliance and regulatory law data infrastructure for the world.

Starting with India and the US. Vaquill AI turns acts, rules, regulations, notifications, orders and judgments into structured, section-level data, served over 18 REST routes and inside Claude over MCP. Built from India Code and the regulators' own sites. No commercial database is a source.

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64,179
acts served live
745,970
sections, individually addressable
12.8M+
judgments, open sourced
400+
government sources watched

Union, State and regulator law, in one consistent format.

64,179 acts and 745,970 distinct sections, built from India Code, the Government of India's official repository, plus statutory regulators' own sites. Every jurisdiction comes back with the same fields in the same shape, so you build against it once instead of writing a parser per state.

19,965
Central acts
32,268
State and UT acts
11,946
Regulator rules
37,013
Rules, notifications and orders

How deep the holding goes

Serving an act and holding the record of what amended it are different claims. Most vendors publish only the first number. Here is both.

We serve the publisher's text
64,179100%
We hold a machine-readable citation
64,11799.9%
We link to the publisher's own document
57,31689.3%
We hold parsed chapter or part hierarchy
16,46525.7%
We hold a structured amendment event
1,0611.7%
We hold a repeal claim
6551.0%

1,901 acts claim an amendment; we hold the events for 1,061 of them. The other 840 return an empty event list and say so in their own coverage block, rather than leaving the emptiness to be read as “nothing ever changed”. Every event carries an appliedStatus, and it is not_applied on all of them, because we never rewrite the publisher's text.

50 government bodies, watched for change

11,946 rules and regulations issued by statutory regulators under powers delegated by an act, filed under category=regulatory and narrowed with the department filter. Across the wider pipeline we watch 400+ government sources for change.

Courts and tribunals
  • Supreme Court of India
  • Delhi High Court
  • Bombay High Court
  • NCLT
  • NCLAT
  • NGT
  • TDSAT
  • eCourts
Financial and markets
  • RBI
  • SEBI
  • IRDAI
  • PFRDA
  • IFSCA
  • NSE
  • BSE
  • NSDL
  • CDSL
  • FIU-IND
  • NFRA
  • IBBI
  • Dept. of Economic Affairs
Tax and trade
  • CBDT
  • CBIC
  • GST Council
  • Maharashtra GST
  • DGFT
  • DGTR
Sector regulators
  • TRAI
  • DoT
  • MeitY
  • CERT-In
  • CCI
  • CDSCO
  • NPPA
  • DGCA
  • CERC
  • Ministry of Power
  • MNRE
  • MoEFCC
  • Ministry of I&B
  • EPFO
  • Ministry of Labour
Legislature and gazette
  • eGazette
  • Legislative Dept.
  • Law Commission
  • Lok Sabha
  • Rajya Sabha
  • Parliament e-Library
  • PIB
  • DPIIT

Jurisdictions

41 jurisdiction values, measured 2026-09-06. The middle column is the literal value to pass to the state filter.

See all 41 jurisdictions
JurisdictionstateActsSections
Central (Union)central13,5141,76,900
Maharashtramaharashtra2,84427,163
Uttar Pradeshuttar-pradesh2,79918,329
Delhidelhi2,35922,113
Haryanaharyana2,20915,555
West Bengalwest-bengal1,92723,924
Chhattisgarhchhattisgarh1,92323,127
Madhya Pradeshmadhya-pradesh1,89517,647
Rajasthanrajasthan1,75326,106
Punjabpunjab1,51119,751
Karnatakakarnataka1,32622,571
Biharbihar1,23010,230
Assamassam1,2176,218
Tamil Nadutamil-nadu94515,987
Jharkhandjharkhand94312,056
Chandigarhchandigarh77310,563
Tripuratripura7678,419
Keralakerala66412,783
Odishaodisha5287,084
Goagoa39213,338
Himachal Pradeshhimachal-pradesh3828,862
Arunachal Pradesharunachal-pradesh3815,232
Gujaratgujarat3756,983
Telanganatelangana3429,149
Uttarakhanduttarakhand3153,275
Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diusplitdadra-and-nagar-haveli-and-daman-and-diu2988,233
Andhra Pradeshandhra-pradesh2596,410
Nagalandnagaland2482,279
Manipurmanipur2322,509
Andaman and Nicobar Islandssplitandaman-and-nicobar-islands2014,604
Meghalayameghalaya1493,112
Dadra and Nagar Havelisplitdadra-nagar-haveli1465,048
Mizorammizoram1381,206
Sikkimsikkim1381,576
Puducherrypuducherry1374,934
Jammu and Kashmirsplitjammu-kashmir1284,352
Jammu and Kashmirsplitjammu-and-kashmir792,296
Ladakhladakh682,210
Andaman and Nicobar Islandssplitandaman-nicobar372,060
Lakshadweeplakshadweep6205

split marks three jurisdictions stored under two slugs each, where a single-slug filter silently misses the other half. Pass both slugs, or search without a state filter and read the value off each result.

India Code
Re-swept weekly
Each sweep
Diffed into added, changed and withdrawn sets
Regulator rules
Pulled from each regulator's own site
Sources
Official publishers only. No commercial database.
Read the full India coverage guide

Two ways to reach the corpus.

Same corpus behind both. Call it from your product, or use it inside an AI assistant.

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REST

The hosted API.

If your product looks law up a section at a time.

  • 18 routes in the India OpenAPI document
  • Bearer token, self-serve, no sales call
  • Coverage and filters cost zero credits, so you can size the corpus before you pay

MCP

The same corpus inside an agent.

If you want Claude to look Indian law up for you, no code.

  • Hosted at mcp.vaquill.ai/in/s/_, publishing 8 tools
  • A separate mount from the US corpus, so neither leaks tools into the other
  • One vq_key_ credential works across both mounts

Check the coverage claim yourself. This route is free, and the live answer beats anything written on this page.

# Free, and authoritative over anything this page says.
curl https://api.vaquill.ai/api/v1/in/acts/coverage \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer vq_key_..."
Section-level retrieval
Search central, state and regulator legislation down to the individual provision, not just to the act.
Three status vocabularies
publisherStatus is India Code's claim, servedStatus is our serving decision, repealClaim carries the repeal record plus commencementVerified.
Old code to new code
IPC to BNS and CrPC to BNSS provision mapping, returned with isComplete so you know how much of the table is filled.
Law-change alerts
Watch a section or a whole corpus and get an email or a signed webhook the moment the text moves, across India and the US.
Provenance on every act
A link to the publisher's own document where one resolves, and a named reason where it does not. Never a broken link dressed as a live one.

The corpus is open. Check it yourself.

Open India Law is the wider Indian corpus behind the API, published in full along with the scrapers that build it. Scripts under Apache-2.0, data under CC BY 4.0. You do not have to believe a coverage number on this page: you can go and count it.

12.8M+
Court judgments
Supreme Court of India and all 25 High Courts, 1950 onward
813,000+
Tribunal and regulator matters
22,000+
Enactments
1.1M+
Sections of legislation

District and trial court decisions are not included. Judgment source PDFs are not re-hosted either: they are already public on the AWS Open Data Registry, and every provision in the legislation and regulator files carries a source_url pointing at its own document, so a chunk can always be traced back to the page it came from.

Browse the acts and regulationsEvery published file

Every route, and what it costs.

All under https://api.vaquill.ai/api/v1/in/acts. The two routes that tell you what the corpus holds are free, because a consumer who cannot see the shape of a corpus cannot tell a gap from a bad query.

RouteCreditsWhat it answers
GET /coveragefreeWhat the corpus holds, and how deep that holding goes.
GET /filtersfreeThe live filter vocabulary, with counts.
POST /search2Search central, state and regulator legislation down to the section.
GET /list1Browse enactments by jurisdiction, regulator, year and status.
GET /{actId}/status1Whether an enactment is still law, as three separate statements.
GET /corresponding-provisions/{actCode}1IPC to BNS and CrPC to BNSS section mapping.
GET /{actId}/structure2The act's table of contents, and the provisions under each part.
GET /{actId}/sections/{n}2One provision as a resource, with its citation and place in the act.
GET /{actId}/sections/{n}/history2Every amendment recorded against one provision.
GET /{actId}/text3Source text URLs, pointing at the publisher's own document.
GET /{actId}/sections/{n}/body3The publisher's full text for one provision.
GET /{actId}/amendments5The amendment history recorded for a whole enactment.

The live OpenAPI document also carries resolve, cited-by, definitions, references and subordinate-rule routes. Read it for the exact request and response shapes.

The India OpenAPI documentIndia coverage guide

What this corpus does not do.

Published here rather than discovered in production. Each of these is enforced in the responses themselves, so your code can read the limit instead of trusting this page.

We do not apply amendments to the text we serve

We serve the publisher's text as published, and never rewrite it to fold in the amendments we list. Every amendment event says so on itself, so currency never has to be inferred from silence.

No point-in-time reconstruction

There is no asOf on this API. Over unversioned text it would be a wrong answer shaped like a right one, so it is not offered. The US corpus does have it, on versioned editions.

Status is a claim, not our verdict

actStatus and repealedBy are the publisher's statements. We keep publisherStatus, servedStatus and repealClaim apart, and map an unverified repeal to unknown rather than to not good law.

Discovery runs through search, not list

GET /acts/list reads an older table and sees about 22,000 of the roughly 64,000 served acts. Every response says so. Use POST /acts/search for discovery and GET /acts/coverage for what exists.

10.7% of acts carry no publisher link

India Code re-minted every item handle in August 2026 with no redirect map, so those links 404. They are blanked rather than rewritten, and each returns a named reason. An empty provenance URL is allowed; a broken one would be a false statement.

The IPC to BNS map is curated, not complete

30 mapped pairs against the Indian Penal Code's 511 sections. The response states isComplete: false. Both codes remain live law while trials are pending, so the map is a research aid, not a substitution rule.

The US corpus is a different product with different guarantees. It carries versioned editions, so it does offer point-in-time reconstruction and change webhooks. Neither is available here, and neither is coming until this corpus is versioned. See the US primary law API

India Code, the Government of India's official repository of Central and State legislation, plus statutory regulators' own sites for their rules and regulations. No commercial legal database is a source or a link target. Only live official Indian publishers appear in the provenance field: .gov.in and .nic.in hosts, plus rbi.org.in.

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Union, State and regulator legislation, with a citation on every section and a link to the publisher's own document.

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