India has one of the largest judicial systems in the world — 25 High Courts, over 3,000 district courts, and millions of pending cases. For lawyers, litigants, and legal tech developers, tracking the status of cases is a daily necessity.
In this post, I'll walk through how to use eCourtsIndia to track all active cases for any advocate across India's district and subordinate courts — and why this matters for developers building legal tech applications.
The Problem: Case Tracking in India Is Fragmented
India's eCourts Mission Mode Project digitized court records across the country. But the data is spread across hundreds of individual court portals, each with its own interface. Finding all cases for a specific advocate meant visiting every court's website separately — until now.
eCourtsIndia: One Platform for All District Court Data
