Safeguarding Society with Visionary AI Leadership
As India accelerates into a digital future, the State Police and Judiciary are redefining public safety and justice for a new era. Charged with protecting over a billion citizens, these institutions operate at an unprecedented scale to uphold the rule of law and ensure justice in this evolving environment. The exponential rise in cybercrime, with over 2.27 million incidents reported in 2024 alone, greater awareness, and rapid digitization have triggered a nationwide response.
Law enforcement agencies, forensic labs, and the judiciary are working together for the complete digitalization and AI-enablement of the Crime, Law and Judiciary ecosystem in India to strengthen crime prevention and ensure faster, more transparent justice. Moving beyond traditional models, the State Police and Judiciary have embraced frontier thinking, deploying AI as a transformative force.
Human oversight remains central, ensuring that every decision is guided by expertise and empathy. AI is embedded across the crime, law, and judiciary ecosystem, from instant case creation to dynamic investigation plans and legal assistance leveraging Microsoft technologies.
The transformative impact of this approach is powerfully demonstrated in Maharashtra. The state’s MARVEL (Maharashtra Advanced Research and Vigilance for Enhanced Law Enforcement), which is Maharashtra’s government-owned AI initiative, is created for integrating advanced technology into policing. The Government of Maharashtra and Microsoft has also signed an MoU to establish three AI Centers of Excellence. As part of this framework, MARVEL worked to adapt CrimeOS AI, developed by CyberEye - Microsoft AI Partner, to finetune it for compliance with state investigation protocols and further configure it in Marathi for easy adoption across the force. MahaCrimeOS AI ingests complaints in any format such as PDFs, audio, handwritten notes, or images, and then uses multimodal intelligence to extract critical information in any language. The system adapts investigation paths, automates analysis, and profiles persons of interest with unparalleled speed and efficiency. This was successfully deployed as a pilot across 25 police stations in Nagpur Rural, including the Cyber Crime Police Station (CCPS). Encouraged by these results, the Government of Maharashtra now plans to scale MahaCrimeOS AI across the entire state, targeting deployment in all district police units - covering over 1,100 police stations.
The qualitative impact is equally striking as victims receive real-time assistance, investigators gain analytical insights, and decision-makers are empowered with on demand intelligence. The State Police and Judiciary are integrating technology and purpose to build a safer and fairer nation. By harnessing AI, justice is becoming faster, more transparent, and accessible to every citizen, strengthening trust in the system that protects them.
“The collaboration between MARVEL and Microsoft is creating transformative solutions for Maharashtra’s law enforcement. The machine learning models we are building, are based on agentic AI models that have been trained on complex crime investigation protocols and judicial pronouncements. This is a revolutionary confluence of the best of governance and technology.”
Harssh A. Poddar
B.A. LL.B., BCL (Oxford), MPA (Harvard), Indian Police Service, Government of India