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Abstract In this paper, we establish an optimal inequality involving normalized δ-Casorati curvature δ C ( n − 1 ) of Lagrangian submanifolds in n-dimensional complex space forms. We derive a very singular and unexpected result: the lower bounds of the normalized δ-Casorati curvatures δ C ( n − 1 ) and δ C ˆ ( n − 1 ) in terms of dimension, the holomorphic sectional curvature, the normalized scalar curvature and the squared mean curvature of the submanifold, are different, in contrast to all previous results obtained for several classes of submanifolds in many ambient spaces. We also investigate the equality case of the inequality and prove that a Casorati δ C ( n − 1 ) -ideal Lagrangian submanifold of a complex space form without totally geodesic points is an H-umbilical Lagrangian submanifold of ratio 4. Some examples are discussed in the last part of the paper, showing that the constants in the inequality obtained in this work are the best possible.