bharat-judgements / Field Guide

The field guide to Indian court data.

Use bharat-judgements to work with court records, orders and judgments. Start with your research task, or build with the Python SDK.

01 / PracticeFor lawyers Set up an assistant, find a matter, and check the source behind an answer. 01 / DevelopmentFor developers Install the SDK, run your first query, and work with structured court data.

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Start with a task.

Find a judgmentSearch by judge, year, party or CNR. Understand when a query uses the archive or live search. Retrieve an orderLook up a High Court matter and download the order PDFs the portal provides. Access a cause listChoose the court, bench and date. High Court lists are PDFs; district lists contain entries. Research the archiveQuery historical Supreme Court and High Court judgments, with explicit coverage and freshness limits.

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Know the record you're reading.

Live court portals

eCourts, the Supreme Court website and the Calcutta High Court website. Available records depend on the portal, lookup method and published data.

The public judgment archive

Supreme Court judgments from 1950 and datasets covering 25 High Courts, maintained by Dattam Labs on AWS Open Data. Coverage and updates vary.