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Court Auto-Fetch

Stop checking eCourts at midnight. CourtNetra polls the Supreme Court, all 25 High Courts, 18,735 District Courts via eCourts, and seven tribunals — and pushes hearing dates, cause-list updates, and NDOH changes to your dashboard with WhatsApp + email alerts.

Indian advocates lose hours every week reconciling matter dashboards with court portals — eCourts, the Supreme Court ICMS, 25 High-Court sites, and seven tribunal portals each have their own cause-list cadence and their own quirks. CourtNetra runs that polling for you.

The platform polls each portal on a fixed schedule, parses the cause list, and writes updates back to your matter dashboard. When a Next Date of Hearing (NDOH) changes, when a bench re-allocation happens, when an order is published — you get a WhatsApp alert and an email, both bilingual in Hindi and English. The 7 AM IST daily digest tells you what is listed for today before you head to court.

The auto-fetch is part of every CourtNetra plan, including the Solo tier. There is no extra add-on, no per-court charge, and no manual data entry once a matter is added.

What's included

  • Supreme Court of India — case status, daily cause list, NDOH
  • All 25 High Courts — full list in the FAQ below
  • 18,735 District Courts via the eCourts (NJDG) portal
  • 7 tribunals — NCLT, NCLAT, NGT, ITAT, CESTAT, AFT, DRT
  • WhatsApp + email alerts on every cause-list and NDOH update
  • 7 AM IST daily hearing-diary digest
  • Bilingual Hindi / English notifications
  • Retry with exponential backoff on portal errors

How it works

  1. 1

    Add a matter by case number

    From the dashboard, click Add Matter, pick the court, and supply the case number, party names, and CNR if you have it. Most matters are added in under 30 seconds.

  2. 2

    Auto-fetch starts polling

    The integration scheduler picks up the matter and starts polling the source portal on the schedule for that court. The first fetch typically completes within a few minutes and populates the matter timeline with the most recent listing.

  3. 3

    Updates are pushed to your dashboard

    Every cause-list change, NDOH update, or order publication appears in the matter timeline. The hearing-diary view aggregates today and tomorrow across every matter.

  4. 4

    Alerts go to WhatsApp + email

    Connect your WhatsApp number under Settings → Notifications. CourtNetra sends instant alerts on changes, plus a 7 AM IST daily digest. Both channels are bilingual.

1. Coverage in detail

CourtNetra covers, as of 2026:

  • Supreme Court of India — case status, daily cause list, NDOH via the integrated case management system.
  • 25 High Courts — Allahabad, Andhra Pradesh, Bombay, Calcutta, Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Gauhati, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, J&K and Ladakh, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Madras, Manipur, Meghalaya, Orissa, Patna, Punjab and Haryana, Rajasthan, Sikkim, Telangana, Tripura, Uttarakhand.
  • District Courts — 18,735 District Court establishments aggregated by the eCourts (National Judicial Data Grid) portal. CourtNetra uses the CNR (Case Number Record) as the canonical identifier and parses the same cause-list payload eCourts publishes.
  • Tribunals — NCLT (National Company Law Tribunal), NCLAT (Appellate), NGT (National Green Tribunal), ITAT (Income Tax Appellate Tribunal), CESTAT (Customs, Excise & Service Tax Appellate Tribunal), AFT (Armed Forces Tribunal), DRT (Debts Recovery Tribunal).

Coverage expands continuously. New tribunal portals are added based on customer requests; the live coverage list with per-court refresh schedules is available in your Settings → Integrations panel.

2. How alerts and digests work

The platform sends two kinds of WhatsApp + email notifications:

  • Daily digest — fired at 7 AM IST every morning, listing every hearing scheduled for the day with case number, party names, court, judge, and last-hearing notes. Quick to read on a phone, ready to read out to a junior or peshkar.
  • Instant alerts — fired when a court publishes a new cause list, an NDOH change, an order, or a bench re-allocation for any matter you track. Alerts include the matter context so you can act without opening the dashboard.

Alerts are bilingual — body text in English with the Hindi date and headline rendered in Devanagari. Both are configurable per matter (you can mute alerts for matters you do not need notifications on).

3. When portal layouts change

Indian court portals occasionally change their HTML layout or API shape. When that happens, the auto-fetch can break for a specific court. CourtNetra monitors all integrations 24/7 and the engineering team patches breakages, usually within hours.

In your dashboard, each court has a status indicator — green for healthy, yellow for "patch pending", red for "extended outage". A yellow status means the integration is degraded and you should fall back to manual checks for that specific court until the patch ships. The status is visible to every user; there is no "we are looking into it" silence.

4. Privacy and data residency

CourtNetra polls only the case numbers you supply. Court portals are public — case status, cause lists, and orders are published openly under Indian e-governance practice. The platform does not crawl portals beyond the case numbers in your matter list.

All customer data — your matters, hearing notes, billing records — is stored in Indian data centres. CourtNetra is compliant with the Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023 and follows IT Rules 2021 grievance procedures. See the data protection page for details.

Frequently asked

Which courts does CourtNetra auto-fetch from?

The Supreme Court of India, all 25 High Courts (Allahabad, Andhra Pradesh, Bombay, Calcutta, Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Gauhati, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, J&K and Ladakh, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Madras, Manipur, Meghalaya, Orissa, Patna, Punjab and Haryana, Rajasthan, Sikkim, Telangana, Tripura, Uttarakhand), 18,735 District Courts via the eCourts (NJDG) portal, and seven tribunals — NCLT, NCLAT, NGT, ITAT, CESTAT, AFT, and DRT.

How often does the auto-fetch run?

Most courts are polled every 4–6 hours during the working day. Cause-list updates and NDOH changes appear in your dashboard within a few minutes of being published on the source portal. The exact cadence per court is available in your Settings → Integrations panel.

What happens when a court portal layout changes?

Scrapers are monitored 24/7. When a portal changes layout — for example a High Court rebuild — the team patches the integration usually within hours. While a patch is pending, that specific court shows a yellow status indicator in your dashboard so you know to fall back to manual checks.

Can I add tribunal cases too?

Yes. Add tribunal matters from the same "Add Matter" flow — pick the tribunal (NCLT, NCLAT, NGT, ITAT, CESTAT, AFT, DRT) and supply the case number. Auto-fetch polls the tribunal portal on a schedule and updates NDOH, bench, and order status in your dashboard.

How do WhatsApp alerts work?

Connect your WhatsApp number under Settings → Notifications. CourtNetra sends a 7 AM IST daily digest with every hearing scheduled for the day, plus instant alerts whenever a court updates the cause list or NDOH for any matter you track. Bilingual Hindi/English. The same alerts also fire over email if you prefer that channel.

What if a court is offline or returns errors?

Failed fetches retry with exponential backoff and the matter shows a transient error indicator. You will not get a "no update" alert if the underlying portal is unreachable — only when the portal returns valid data showing a real change.

See it on real Indian court data

CourtNetra offers a 3-day free trial — no card required. Add a matter, watch the auto-fetch fire, and try NyayaLens AI on your own brief.

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