Can NJDG Track My Court Case?

Explainer · Court Infrastructure

Updated for 2026 · Claw Editorial

Type "track my case" into a search engine and the National Judicial Data Grid often comes up, since NJDG is the best known name in Indian court data. But NJDG was not built to answer "what is happening in my case right now", and using it that way usually ends in a dead end. This page gives the direct answer: what NJDG can and cannot tell you about a specific matter, where to actually check your case status, and what to do if you are tracking more than a handful of cases.

01The short answer

No, not directly. The National Judicial Data Grid is a public statistics dashboard that shows how many cases are pending and disposed of across Indian courts, not a lookup tool for a single case's status, next hearing date, or orders.

If you want to check your own case, the correct destination is the eCourts Services portal, or the specific High Court or Supreme Court website for cases at those levels. NJDG and eCourts share the same underlying government data infrastructure, which is exactly why the confusion happens, but they answer different questions.

NJDG will tell you how backed up a court is. It will not tell you when your own case is next listed.

02What NJDG actually shows

NJDG, run by the e-Committee of the Supreme Court of India and available at njdg.ecourts.gov.in, aggregates case data from courts across the country and turns it into pendency and disposal statistics, updated close to daily.

District and taluka courts were onboarded to NJDG in 2015. High Court data was added in 2020. The Supreme Court was integrated in 2023, so the grid now spans all three tiers of the judiciary. What it shows, at each level, is aggregate: total pending cases for a court, state, or the country, how many were disposed of in a period, and how old the pending cases are, broken into age brackets. Courts and case types can be filtered, but the output is always a count or a chart, not a single case record with a hearing date.

This makes NJDG genuinely useful for a different purpose: judging how backed up a particular court or bench is before advising a client on likely timelines, or comparing courts where a matter could be filed in more than one forum.

03Why people expect NJDG to track individual cases

The confusion is understandable, and it comes from three things.

NJDG and eCourts share the same source data

Both systems are fed by the Case Information System that court staff use to enter case data. Because the underlying data is the same, people assume the two portals do the same job. They do not. eCourts is built for looking up one case. NJDG is built for aggregating thousands.

NJDG is the more visible, more discussed name

NJDG gets covered in news reports about court backlog and judicial reform, so it is the name most people remember when they think of "the government court data system", even when what they actually need is a single case status.

Some NJDG screens do drill down into case lists

Certain NJDG views let you drill from a state or court-level pendency number down toward the underlying case list for that filter. Even where that exists, it is a byproduct of the statistics view, not a dedicated case-status search with your case number, party name, or CNR number as the starting point. For a full side-by-side of what each portal is built to do, see our explainer on the difference between NJDG and eCourts.

04Where to actually check your case status

To track a specific matter, go to the portal built for single-case lookup, which depends on which court your case is in.

District and subordinate courts

Use the eCourts Services portal at services.ecourts.gov.in. Search using the case's CNR number for the fastest, most reliable result, or use case registration number, party name, or advocate name if you do not have the CNR number. The result shows current status, the next hearing date, and any orders the court has uploaded.

High Courts

Each High Court runs its own case status search, usually on its own website, separate from the district court eCourts portal. Formats and available filters vary by High Court.

The Supreme Court

Supreme Court matters are tracked on the Supreme Court's own portal, using the diary number or case number issued by the Court.

Because the lookup tool, and even the identifier you search with, changes depending on which tier of the judiciary holds your case, it helps to know the differences up front. See our comparison of Supreme Court, High Court, and district court case tracking for how each tier works.

05The problem with checking manually, case by case

For one case, a manual portal check works fine. The trouble starts once a lawyer or legal team is carrying more than a handful of active matters, spread across different courts.

• No single view. A district court case, a High Court appeal, and a tribunal matter each live on a different portal, with different search fields and different identifiers.
• Nothing pushes information to you. Every portal discussed so far, including NJDG and eCourts, is something you visit and query. None of them will message you when a hearing date changes or an order is uploaded.
• Easy to miss a date. When tracking is manual and spread across many tabs, a changed hearing date or an unexpected order can go unnoticed until it is too late to act on it.
• No compliance follow-through. A court order often creates a deadline, such as filing a reply or complying with a direction. None of the government portals will read an order and remind you of what it requires.

06What real case tracking looks like

Once manual, portal-by-portal checking stops scaling, four things separate a genuine case tracking setup from a workaround.

• Coverage across court tiers: district and taluka courts, High Courts, tribunals, and the Supreme Court, in one place, instead of one portal per tier.
• Automatic updates: the system pulls new case status, orders, and hearing dates on its own, rather than requiring someone to search each case manually.
• Proactive alerts: a message, not just a screen you have to remember to check, when something changes on a case you are tracking.
• Follow-through on compliance: some way to turn an order into a reminder, so a deadline created by the court does not depend on someone re-reading the order later.

For a fuller look at tools built around these features specifically for district and subordinate courts, see the best district court case tracking software in India.

07Where Claw fits

Claw is an all-in-one legaltech platform for Indian advocates, law firms, and corporate legal teams, combining AI-based case search, an AI legal assistant (Legal GPT), case management, and compliance automation across all Indian courts and tribunals. It is positioned as India’s first all-in-one legaltech platform of this kind.

NJDG answers a macro question: how backed up is a court. It was never built to answer the question most lawyers actually have day to day, which is what is happening in my own matters, right now. Claw's case management module tracks individual cases across 8,200 plus courts, including all states, tribunals, and district courts, alongside the Supreme Court. It pulls case updates automatically instead of requiring a manual portal check per case, sends WhatsApp and email alerts when something changes, and its AI auto-compliance feature can read a court order and schedule the resulting reminder, rather than leaving that to memory. A daily calendar and cause list view then bring every tracked matter into one screen.

NJDG remains a useful, free source of background context on how a court or bench is performing. For tracking your own cases day to day, that is a separate job, and it is the one a platform like Claw is built for.

08Sources and further reading

The official sources referred to in this explainer:

• National Judicial Data Grid (NJDG): njdg.ecourts.gov.in
• eCourts Services (individual case status): services.ecourts.gov.in
• eCourts single sign-on: ecourts.gov.in
• e-Committee, Supreme Court of India: ecommitteesci.gov.in

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