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Principal, Woodland House School v. Shakeel Ahmad Malik (2026): AI may assist legal research but cannot replace judicial verification

A salary-execution petition before the Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court turned on two precedents whose citations would not hold up to scrutiny — one untraceable, one patently wrong. Justice Wasim Sadiq Nargal used the occasion to lay down that every AI-generated citation must be independently verified before it enters a judicial order, and directed the judgment circulated to all judicial officers in J&K and Ladakh.