How to Search Delhi District Court Cases (All 7 Complexes, 11 Districts)

Last updated: 23 September 2026

You can search every Delhi district court case, and read each court’s daily cause list, on eCourtsIndia. For a specific case, use eCourtsIndia search with a CNR, case number, party or advocate name. For the day’s listings, open ecourtsindia.com/causelist/DL, pick one of Delhi’s 11 judicial districts, then the court establishment. Those 11 districts sit in 7 court complexes (Tis Hazari, Patiala House, Karkardooma, Saket, Rohini, Dwarka and Rouse Avenue), and this guide maps each district to its complex so you know where your matter is actually heard.

Which Delhi district courts are covered?

Here is the part that trips most people up. Delhi has 11 judicial districts, each with its own District and Sessions Judge, but they work out of just 7 physical court complexes. Some complexes host two or three districts. The table below is built from the live eCourtsIndia court directory for Delhi, where each establishment’s name carries the complex it sits in (THC for Tis Hazari, PHC for Patiala House, KKD for Karkardooma, RHC for Rohini, DWK for Dwarka, and Saket).

Court complex	Judicial districts heard there	Open the cause list
Tis Hazari	Central, West	Central, West
Patiala House	New Delhi	New Delhi
Karkardooma	East, North-East, Shahdara	East, North-East, Shahdara
Saket	South, South-East	South, South-East
Rohini	North, North-West	North, North-West
Dwarka	South-West	South-West
Rouse Avenue	Special courts complex, listed under Central	Central

Inside each district you will usually find the same set of establishments: the District and Sessions Judge, the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, the Senior Civil Judge cum Rent Controller, and the Principal Judge of the Family Court. Some districts also list a Juvenile Justice Board. So if someone tells you their matter is “in Shahdara court” or “in the New Delhi district court”, those are judicial districts. You will physically find them at Karkardooma and Patiala House respectively. Every district has its own Family Court, which sits in that district’s complex.

Rouse Avenue is the one complex that is not simply “a district’s building”. It houses special courts, including the CBI courts that moved there from Patiala House. If you are following a corruption prosecution, our guide to tracking Lokayukta and anti-corruption court cases explains how to find those matters by name.

How do you search a Delhi district court case?

The fastest route to one specific case is search, not the cause list. Search runs across every Delhi district at once, so you do not need to know the complex first.

1. Go to ecourtsindia.com/search.
2. Enter what you have: the CNR (the 16-character case identifier that stays with a case for life, explained in CNR Number Decoded), the case number, a party name or an advocate’s name.
3. Filter to Delhi, and to the district if you know it. Add a case type filter to cut down a common surname.
4. Open the matter to see the court and judge, stage, next hearing date and every order passed.

The case type filter matters more than people expect. A party-name search for “Sharma” across Delhi will return a long list. Narrow it to a cheque-bounce complaint, a civil suit or a family matter and it drops to the handful that matter. Our eCourtsIndia search guide covers every filter, and the case type encyclopedia decodes the abbreviations you will see.

If you are sure a Delhi case exists but it does not show up, use Add a Missing Case to ask for it to be added.

How do you open the Delhi cause list?

1. Open ecourtsindia.com/causelist/DL. You will see the High Court of Delhi and the 11 districts, each with its district code.
2. Pick the district, not the complex. Use the table above if you only know the building: a Saket matter is either South or South-East, a Karkardooma matter is East, North-East or Shahdara.
3. Choose the court establishment (Sessions, Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Senior Civil Judge, Family Court) and the date.
4. Find your matter by case number or party name and note the court room and item number.

If you follow the same courts every day, the eCourtsIndia Chrome extension shows tomorrow’s listings for your cases while you browse, and the Android and iOS apps put the list in your pocket in the court corridor.

How do you read a Delhi cause list?

A cause list is the day’s roster of cases for each court, arranged by court room and presiding officer. Each line carries an item number, the case number and title, the parties’ advocates, and often the purpose of the listing. The item number tells you the order within that court’s list, but it does not tell you how long you will wait or what kind of hearing it is. Practice varies from court to court and even day to day, so read the purpose column rather than guessing from the number. Our guide to reading Indian cause lists walks through each column.

What the purpose column shows can be sobering. When we read Delhi district cause lists row by row, most listed items were appearances, procedural steps or adjournments, and very few were hearings on merits. The full breakdown is in We Read a Week of Delhi District Cause Lists.

What types of cases do Delhi district courts hear?

• Criminal trials: BNS (and older IPC) offences, sessions trials, POCSO matters, economic offences.
• Cheque-bounce complaints under Section 138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act, a large docket in every Delhi district.
• Civil suits: recovery, specific performance, declaration, partition, injunction, and rent control matters before the Senior Civil Judge cum Rent Controller.
• Family matters before each district’s Family Court: divorce, custody, maintenance.
• Motor accident claims under the Motor Vehicles Act.
• Commercial suits within the district-level commercial court jurisdiction.
• Bail applications: regular bail, anticipatory bail before the Sessions Court, remand.
• Special court matters, such as CBI prosecutions at Rouse Avenue.

Can you follow a Delhi case up to the Delhi High Court?

Yes, though you do it by search rather than by a single click. District-court orders that are challenged produce a separate matter in the Delhi High Court: a criminal revision, a civil revision, a petition under Article 227, a writ, or an appeal. Search the same party names with the High Court of Delhi selected and look for a filing date after the district-court order. High Court orders usually recite the lower-court case number, which lets you confirm the link.

What about FIRs registered at Delhi police stations?

Case search does not take an FIR number. For the FIR itself, Crime Reports for Delhi lists police districts such as South-East, Outer, Dwarka and Central, plus units like Metro, Railways and Special Cell, with 5,000+ Delhi FIR PDFs imported so far, mostly from 2025 and 2026. Each FIR PDF costs Rs 1 after sign-in. Note that police districts do not line up exactly with judicial districts. Once the chargesheet is filed, find the court case by the accused’s name in the right judicial district. Our FIR status guide covers both steps.

Can you set an alert on a Delhi district court case?

Yes. Add the case to your case dashboard, then switch on WhatsApp and email alerts. You get a message whenever there is a new listing, a new order or a stage change. Searching and cause lists are free. Tracking costs Rs 5 per case per month and each alert Rs 0.50, paid from AI Clerk credits: the free plan includes 50 credits a month, and paid plans run from Rs 250 + GST a month (500 credits) to Rs 10,000 + GST a year (20,000 credits). Credits never expire. See the pricing page for details and the case alerts guide for the setup.

Is this the official Delhi court record?

The data comes from the official eCourts district-court system and the Delhi High Court’s records. eCourtsIndia is a faster, unified way to search and follow them, but the underlying record remains the court’s. For a formal pleading, rely on the order PDF from the case page or a certified copy.

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Related reading on eCourtsIndia Blogs: Check Any High Court Case Status • How to Read a Cause List • Check Your Court Case Status Online. Published by eCourtsIndia Data Team. General information, not legal advice.

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