Meghalaya High Court: case status, orders and RTI

A High Court is two institutions in one building. As a court, it produces judgments and orders you obtain through court procedure. As an establishment, it holds administrative records — vacancies, budgets, listing policy, recruitment — that are ordinary disclosable government records. Litigants lose months by asking the wrong institution for the right thing.

• Case status — on the High Court's site and through the eCourts High Court services, with the eCourts-wide CNR, the unique 16-character Case Number Record, as the fastest key.
• Orders and judgments — court orders, judgments and legacy orders are published on the site; the display board and neutral-citation search sit alongside. All free.
• Certified copies — the Certified Copy tab on the portal walks the application; the fee follows the court's certified-copy schedule. Ask for the schedule in writing if it is not displayed.
• Listing — cause lists publish on the site; check the evening before, not at the gate.
• eFiling and ePay — both run from the portal, along with virtual-court and video-conference facilities the eCourts project added.

Courts are public authorities under the RTI Act — a five-judge Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court affirmed in November 2019, in the Subhash Chandra Agarwal case, that even the office of the Chief Justice of India is one. The High Court of Meghalaya goes further than most: its portal carries an eRTI module that sends you to megrti.gov.in to file and track applications online.

What you can ask for by RTI:

• Pendency and disposal statistics for a case type or bench.
• Listing and cause-list policy, and why a case was not listed on given dates.
• Recruitment, vacancies and infrastructure records.
• Any administrative file in which you are the affected party.

What stays outside RTI: the judicial record itself — pleadings, orders in the file — which travels by certified copy and inspection, not by section 6.

To:
The Public Information Officer,
High Court of Meghalaya, Shillong.

Sir/Madam, under section 6 of the RTI Act 2005,
kindly provide:

1. Pendency of [CASE TYPE] matters as on [DATE], with
   the number pending beyond 5 and 10 years.
2. The number of such matters disposed in the last
   12 months.
3. The norms governing preparation of the daily cause
   list, and the reason case No. [NUMBER] was not
   listed on [DATES].
4. The name and designation of the officer responsible
   for listing in respect of my case.
5. The procedure and fee schedule for certified copies
   and inspection of records.

Rs. 10 application fee paid as per the court's RTI rules.

Yours faithfully,
[Name, address, phone]

• Day 30, no reply — first appeal within 30 days, section 19(1); the FAA in the court is usually a Senior Registrar; decision within 30 days, extendable to 45.
• Adverse order — second appeal within 90 days, section 19(3), to the Information Commission as the court's rules direct — the RTI pages on the portal carry the current designation before you file.

Yes — case status, cause lists, orders and judgment search all cost nothing. Only certified copies carry a fee.

No — judicial records follow court procedure: certified copies and inspection. RTI covers the court's administrative side. Ask the counter for the file; ask the CPIO for the system.

Yes — the portal's eRTI module routes to megrti.gov.in for online filing and tracking, besides the postal route to the CPIO.

Then the district court establishment is the relevant public authority, and the eCourts portal for that court carries status and orders. See the NJDG guide for the statistics layer across all courts.

The AI RTI Drafter builds this application around your case details, and the First Appeal Builder writes the day-31 appeal.

• All eCourts and judicial guides
• RTI for court case delay
• NJDG — the national pendency dashboard
• Citizen RTI Playbook
• The RTI Playbook book — drafting, appeals and deadlines in one place.

Last reviewed: 27 August 2026. The court's portal verified live at meghalayahighcourt.nic.in, and its eRTI module — fetched today — routes online applications to megrti.gov.in. The March 2013 establishment follows the 2012 amendment Act that created the three north-eastern High Courts together.