eCourts case status — the free national tracker

Courts are not a monolith for RTI purposes, and the tracker is not a case file. This page separates the two: the portal for watching, the RTI Act for obtaining.

1. Best key is the CNR — the unique case identity the eCourts system assigns; once a case is in the system, CNR pulls it up in any of that court's search screens
2. No CNR? Search by party name and year in the right court complex — pick the state, district court complex and case type, then narrow by year
3. FIR number search maps a police case to its court case — the tracker offers it directly for criminal matters
4. What you see: registration details, judge and courtroom, each hearing's purpose and result, orders passed, and the next listing — with free copies of many intermediate orders as PDF
5. Captcha every time — there is no session; note the CNR down so you never re-search blind

A fraction of High Courts sit on separate systems; the eCourts services portal covers district and taluka courts nationwide, and links out to High Court case-status systems where they run separately.

• It shows orders, not the pleadings — plaint, written statement, evidence, applications in between
• Certified copies must still be taken from the court's copying branch, on application, at per-page rates
• Case-file inspection is a separate administrative process
• Old cases, and matters before the Supreme Court (which runs its own site), may be absent
• And it says nothing about the court's administration — staff, infrastructure, pendency management, budget

Judicial reasoning is exempt; judicial records are largely governed by court rules, not the RTI Act. The High Courts frame their own RTI rules under §28, and applications concerning a High Court's judicial side usually route through those rules — see the court's own RTI page (for example, Patna High Court publishes its e-RTI section). What RTI cleanly reaches:

• Administrative side — recruitment, transfers, infrastructure spending, court-staff records
• Copies and process records — your certified-copy application's status, the copying branch's register
• District-court administration through the High Court or the district court's CPIO
• eCourts project records at the Department of Justice — spending, vendor contracts, coverage

1. Status and expected delivery date of my certified-copy application no. ____ dated ____.
2. Copy of the order dated ____ in case ____ as held in the record.
3. The pendency and disposal statistics of this court for the last three years, as reported.
4. The number of certified-copy applications pending beyond the prescribed period.

1. **Track on the portal** — screenshot every hearing entry; the history is the spine of every later application
2. **Download orders free** where offered — most interim orders are PDFs on the case page
3. **Apply for certified copies** through the court's process the moment a final or operative order matters
4. **RTI only the administration or the process** — certified-copy delays, file movement, registers
5. **Certified orders for appeals** — the portal copy convinces you; only the certified copy convinves a court

Real example. Dr. Shrawan Kumar Pathak watched a civil suit drift for a year on the portal — adjournment after adjournment. An RTI to the district court's administration for the case's listing history and the number of adjournments granted on counsel's request produced the register extract within three weeks; the very next hearing was fixed for arguments, with the extract in his file.

Yes — case status, hearing history and many order copies at services.ecourts.gov.in cost nothing.

The unique case identity the eCourts system assigns to every case; it is printed on cause lists and orders and is the fastest search key.

For judicial records, courts route you to their copying process and their own RTI rules; RTI reliably gets you the process records — your application's status and the registers. Apply for the certified copy properly, and use RTI on any delay.

No — the Supreme Court maintains its own case-status system; the eCourts services portal is for district and subordinate courts, with High Court links.

No. It tracks and informs; only certified copies from the court are evidence anywhere else.

• How to read a cause list
• Patna High Court — RTI and e-services
• High Court of Manipur — RTI and e-services
• The RTI Playbook

• services.ecourts.gov.in — eCourts services portal: case status, orders, court links
• RTI Act 2005, §2(h) (courts are public authorities), §28 (High Court RTI rules)

Last reviewed: 26 August 2026. Portal features verified against the live eCourts services portal; the judicial-versus-administrative split follows the Act and High Court practice.