Guide
How to check your case status on eCourts
The eCourts portal covers district courts across India and is free. Here is how to find your matter, and — just as important — how much to trust what it tells you.
Three ways to search
By CNR number (best)
The CNR is a 16-character code unique to your case nationally — something like HRGR01-001234-2024. If you have it, use it: one search, exact result, no ambiguity.
It is printed on most orders and on the filing acknowledgement. If you have ever received any paper from the court, look there first.
By case number
Select your state, district and court establishment, then enter the case type, number and year. This is the usual route. The catch is case type — a matter registered as CS is not the same as CIS or CMA, and picking wrong returns nothing. Check the abbreviation on an existing order.
By party name
Works when you have no numbers at all. Enter the name and year, and pick from the results. Expect to sift — common names in a busy district return long lists, and you will need the opposite party's name to identify yours with confidence.
What you get
- Current status — pending or disposed.
- The next hearing date, and which court it is listed before.
- Case history — every past date and, briefly, what happened on it.
- Orders — many courts upload PDF copies of orders, downloadable free.
A downloaded order PDF is a plain copy, not a certified copy. It has no attestation and no legal standing. You cannot file an appeal with it. See the difference between copy types.
Why the portal is sometimes wrong
eCourts reflects what court staff have entered, and entry lags reality — sometimes by days, occasionally by weeks. Practical consequences:
- A next date shown may already have passed and been changed. Never skip a hearing because the portal shows a later date.
- “Disposed” does not always mean finally decided. It can mean transferred, consolidated, or disposed on a technical ground.
- Orders can take weeks to be uploaded, and some are never uploaded at all.
- Older matters may be missing entirely, since digitisation started at different times in different districts.
For anything that matters — a limitation deadline, whether an order was actually passed — the file at the court is the authority, not the portal.
The mobile app
The official eCourts Services app does the same searches and lets you save cases to a personal list, which is worth doing if you are following a matter yourself. It will not notify you reliably, though, so do not treat silence as meaning nothing has happened.
If you would rather not track it yourself
MyCaseFile watches your case and messages you before every date, with what happened last time in plain language — and we check at the court, not only on the portal, when the answer actually matters. ₹499 per case per year.