IPC Semantic Search

What:

• The Indian Penal Code (IPC) is the official criminal code of India. Wikipedia
• The intention behind this project is to provide an interfact for a common layman to search IPC sections.

Steps:

• Scrap the devgan.in website to get the different sections in IPC
• Use semantic sentence similarity models to get the embeddings of the descriptions of the IPC sections
• Perform Cosine Similarity to get the nearest matching section wrt query.

Code:

• devganscrap: Scrapy code to crawl and extract IPC sections and their description from the devgan.in

Data:

• devagnscrp/sections_desc.csv: IPC sections and descriptions (Data Credits: http://devgan.in)