NCLT and NCLAT Case Status on eCourtsIndia: Search Every Insolvency Bench

NCLT and NCLAT case records are now live on eCourtsIndia, so you can search every National Company Law Tribunal bench and the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal in one place, by company name, CNR, case type, status or bench. The platform now indexes 2,29,644 NCLT matters across all 15 benches and 26,030 NCLAT appeals, verified on 9 June 2026. You can open any bench with a simple link like ecourtsindia.com/search?cc=NCLTMB0, and the free-text box reaches inside the full text of uploaded orders, not just the case headers. This guide explains what just went live and exactly how to find an insolvency matter in one step.

Key takeaways

• All 15 NCLT benches are now searchable on ecourtsindia.com/search, holding 2,29,644 matters in total, of which 1,59,082 are disposed and 70,562 are pending.
• NCLAT is live too, with 26,030 appeals across the Principal Bench at New Delhi and the Chennai Bench.
• Each bench has its own court code. Open one directly with cc=, for example cc=NCLTDL0 for New Delhi or cc=NCLTMB0 for Mumbai.
• The biggest case type by far is the Interlocutory Application under the IBC (IA_IBC) at 1,18,706 matters, followed by the Company Petition under the IBC (CP_IBC) at 36,709.
• You can search by company name, by CNR, or by bench, and then read the actual orders and cause lists, with no login and no paid ranking.
• Counts are live and rise as new matters are filed and indexed, so treat the figures below as a dated snapshot, not a fixed total.

What just went live on eCourtsIndia

We have added the National Company Law Tribunal and the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal to the eCourtsIndia index. That means the corporate and insolvency layer of Indian litigation now sits alongside the Supreme Court, the High Courts and the district courts you could already search. Together the two tribunals add 2,55,674 matters to the platform, all searchable the same way you search any other court.

This is the first in a series of tribunal additions. NCLT and NCLAT go first because they carry the country’s insolvency and company-law caseload, the matters that decide whether a stressed company is revived, sold or liquidated. If you have ever tried to track an IBC matter across the official portals, you know the records are split by bench and hard to read together. eCourtsIndia stitches them into one searchable index.

What NCLT and NCLAT are

The National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) is the trial-level tribunal for company law and insolvency in India, and the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) is the forum that hears appeals against its orders. NCLT was constituted under the Companies Act, 2013 and became the adjudicating authority for the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016. It handles company petitions, mergers and amalgamations, oppression and mismanagement, and the full corporate insolvency resolution process. NCLAT sits above it and also hears appeals from the Competition Commission of India and the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India.

In plain terms, if a financial creditor drags a defaulting company into insolvency, that case starts at an NCLT bench. If either side is unhappy with the outcome, the appeal goes to NCLAT, and from there to the Supreme Court. The data on eCourtsIndia now lets you follow a matter along that whole path.

The 15 NCLT benches, and how to open each one

NCLT runs 15 benches across the country, from the two giants in New Delhi and Mumbai down to smaller benches like Guwahati. Each bench has a court code you can drop straight into a search link. The counts below are live record totals, verified on 9 June 2026.

Bench	Court code	Indexed matters	Open the bench
New Delhi	NCLTDL0	52,329	Search New Delhi
Mumbai	NCLTMB0	52,290	Search Mumbai
Kolkata	NCLTKL0	24,117	Search Kolkata
Chennai	NCLTCH0	21,051	Search Chennai
Hyderabad	NCLTHD0	16,591	Search Hyderabad
Ahmedabad	NCLTAH0	14,626	Search Ahmedabad
Bengaluru	NCLTBG0	12,510	Search Bengaluru
Allahabad	NCLTAL0	6,870	Search Allahabad
Jaipur	NCLTJP0	6,326	Search Jaipur
Kochi	NCLTKC0	5,468	Search Kochi
Chandigarh	NCLTCG0	4,794	Search Chandigarh
Indore	NCLTIN0	4,238	Search Indore
Amaravati	NCLTAR0	3,630	Search Amaravati
Cuttack	NCLTCT0	3,474	Search Cuttack
Guwahati	NCLTGW0	1,330	Search Guwahati

(New Delhi hosts both the Principal Bench and a New Delhi regional bench, which share the court code NCLTDL0, so the official NCLT bench count is 16.)

Two benches, New Delhi and Mumbai, hold 1,04,619 matters between them, which is 45 percent of the entire NCLT caseload on the platform. That concentration is exactly what you would expect, since the largest corporate insolvencies cluster around the country’s two biggest commercial centres. If you want the full data story behind these numbers, our NCLT insolvency scorecard breaks down disposal rates, the marquee insolvencies and the financial-creditor footprint bench by bench.

NCLAT on eCourtsIndia

NCLAT is now searchable too, with 26,030 appeals on the platform, of which 14,844 are disposed and 11,186 are pending. The tribunal sits in two locations, the Principal Bench at New Delhi and the Chennai Bench, and the records are tagged by the NCLT bench the appeal travelled from. So a Mumbai insolvency that goes up on appeal shows under the Delhi bench with a Mumbai origin, and a Hyderabad matter shows under Chennai with a Hyderabad origin.

The Principal Bench at New Delhi carries the single largest block of appeals, and the appeals filed under the IBC, listed as Company Appeal (AT) (Insolvency), are the most common case type. Because NCLAT is the last stop before the Supreme Court for an insolvency matter, its orders are some of the most cited in Indian corporate law, and they are now full-text searchable on the platform.

How to check an NCLT or NCLAT case status

To check an NCLT or NCLAT case status, open eCourtsIndia search, filter to the right bench using its court code, then search by the company name or the CNR. There are three reliable routes, depending on what you already know.

1. By company name. If you know the company, type its name into the free-text box and add the bench filter. For example, open the Mumbai bench at ecourtsindia.com/search?cc=NCLTMB0 and search the corporate debtor’s name. The index searches party names on both sides, so it works whether your company is the petitioner or the respondent. To trace one company across every bench at once, drop the bench filter and search the name alone, or use the dedicated litigant search.

2. By CNR. Every matter, including every NCLT and NCLAT case, carries a 16 character CNR that never changes, even if the case is transferred or renumbered. An NCLT CNR begins with the bench code, so NCLTMB0 for Mumbai or NCLTDL0 for New Delhi, followed by the running number and year. Paste the CNR into the search and you land on that exact case. If you are not sure how to read the code, our guide on the CNR number decoded walks through each character.

3. By bench, then filter. If you want to browse rather than look up one matter, open the bench with its cc= link and use the sidebar to narrow by case type, status and filing year. This is the route a researcher or a creditor’s counsel takes when scanning all pending company petitions at a bench. The same logic applies to NCLAT once you filter to the Delhi or Chennai bench.

The NCLT case types you will see

NCLT uses a specific vocabulary of case-type codes, and a wrong code returns nothing, so it helps to know the main ones. The table below shows the most common types across all benches, with their live counts.

Case type	Code	What it is	Indexed matters
Interlocutory Application (IBC)	IA_IBC	Applications filed inside an ongoing insolvency	1,18,706
Company Petition (IBC)	CP_IBC	The petition that starts an insolvency	36,709
Company Petition (Companies Act)	CP_CA	Petitions under the Companies Act, 2013	15,137
Company Application (Companies Act)	CA_CA	Applications under the Companies Act	10,475
Interlocutory Application (Companies Act)	IA_CA	Applications inside a Companies Act matter	8,379

The pattern here tells a real story. Interlocutory applications outnumber the petitions that start a case by more than three to one, because a single corporate insolvency throws off dozens of side applications, for resolution plans, liquidation steps, avoidance transactions and more. For the full vocabulary across every court, including the corporate and IBC family, see our case type encyclopedia, and to make sense of where a matter stands, the case status dictionary explains every status code in plain English. These code tables are a snapshot; the authoritative, always-current list of court codes and case types lives in the platform’s API enum reference, and new tribunals such as the GST Appellate Tribunal (GSTAT) are being added to those pickers as they roll out.

Reading orders and cause lists

Search is only the first step. Once you are on a case, eCourtsIndia gives you the order sheet and, where uploaded, the full text of every order and judgment. For NCLT, where the reasoning in a resolution-plan approval or a liquidation order can run to many pages, full-text access is the difference between knowing a case was decided and knowing how it was decided. The free-text box searches inside that order text, so you can find every matter where a particular doctrine, section or argument appears.

If you act in these matters, you can also pull the daily cause list for a bench to see what is listed for hearing, which is the same workflow we describe for any court. For a complete tour of the filters and parameters behind all of this, our eCourtsIndia search guide is the reference to keep open in another tab.

Who this helps

The people who will feel this addition first are the ones who live in the insolvency system. Insolvency professionals and resolution professionals can search every application in a corporate insolvency from one screen and read each order as it is uploaded. Lenders and asset reconstruction companies can look up the company petitions they have filed and the appeals against them, by company name or CNR. General counsel and compliance teams can review NCLT and NCLAT exposure alongside the rest of their litigation, the kind of API-driven due-diligence workflow we cover for in-house teams in our piece on legal due diligence on the eCourtsIndia API.

Founders and directors of companies facing a petition can finally see their own matter without going through three portals. Journalists and researchers tracing a distressed group across benches can do it in one query. And students writing on the IBC now have a clean, full-text dataset to work from. This is what we mean by putting the public record in a form a normal person can actually use.

What comes next

NCLT and NCLAT are the start. We are adding the rest of India’s tribunals to eCourtsIndia in the weeks ahead, including the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal, the Customs, Excise and Service Tax Appellate Tribunal, the Central Administrative Tribunal, the Debt Recovery Tribunals and their appellate forum, the Securities Appellate Tribunal, the Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal, the Appellate Tribunal for Electricity, the GST Appellate Tribunal (GSTAT, whose bench codes and case types are already being seeded into the search pickers as it rolls out), and the consumer disputes redressal commissions. Each will get the same treatment, one searchable index, full-text orders, and no paywall on the public record. Bookmark the search and check back as each one goes live.

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