ITAT and CESTAT Case Status on eCourtsIndia: Search Every Tax Tribunal Bench

ITAT and CESTAT case records are now live on eCourtsIndia, so you can search the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal and the Customs, Excise and Service Tax Appellate Tribunal in the same place you already search the Supreme Court, the High Courts and the district courts. The platform now indexes 62,575 ITAT matters across 30 ITAT bench locations and 5,128 CESTAT matters across its live zonal benches, verified on 12 June 2026. You can open any bench with a simple link such as ecourtsindia.com/search?cc=ITADLIT for Delhi, 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 a tax appeal in one step.

Key takeaways

• 30 ITAT bench locations are currently indexed on ecourtsindia.com/search, holding 62,575 matters in total (as of 12 June 2026), of which 49,725 are disposed and 12,850 are pending. ITAT operates 63 benches in all; 30 of its bench cities are searchable here so far.
• CESTAT is live too, with 5,128 matters across its six populated zonal benches at Ahmedabad, Delhi, Bangalore, Allahabad, Chennai and Chandigarh.
• Each bench has its own set of court codes. Open one directly with cc=, for example cc=ITADLIT for the Delhi ITAT or cc=ITAMBIT for Mumbai.
• The Delhi and Mumbai ITAT benches together hold 26,559 matters, about 42 percent of the entire ITAT caseload on the platform.
• The bulk of ITAT work is the plain Income Tax Appeal (ITA) at 59,082 matters, with a specialised tail covering transfer pricing, international taxation, search and seizure, black money and wealth tax appeals.
• You can search by party name, by CNR, or by bench, then read the actual orders and cause lists, with no login and no paid ranking.

What just went live on eCourtsIndia

We have added the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal and the Customs, Excise and Service Tax Appellate Tribunal to the eCourtsIndia index. That means the tax layer of Indian litigation, both direct and indirect, now sits alongside the courts and tribunals you could already search. Together the two tribunals add 67,703 matters to the platform, all searchable the same way you search any other forum.

This follows the addition of the company-law tribunals. If you have been tracking our rollout, ITAT and CESTAT come right after the NCLT and NCLAT launch, and they carry the country’s tax appeal caseload, the matters that decide how much a person or a company finally owes the exchequer. If you have ever tried to follow an income tax appeal or a customs dispute across the official tribunal portals, you know the records are split by bench and hard to read together. eCourtsIndia stitches them into one searchable index.

What ITAT and CESTAT are

The Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT) is the second appellate authority for direct tax in India, and the Customs, Excise and Service Tax Appellate Tribunal (CESTAT) is the appellate forum for indirect tax disputes. ITAT hears appeals against the orders of the Commissioner of Income Tax (Appeals) under the Income Tax Act, 1961, and its decisions on facts are final, with only a question of law travelling onward to the High Court and then the Supreme Court. It is one of the oldest tribunals in the country and is often called the mother tribunal of India.

CESTAT hears appeals relating to customs duty, central excise and service tax. While the goods and services tax has reshaped indirect tax going forward, a very large legacy caseload of customs, excise and service tax matters continues to move through CESTAT, and its orders feed into the same appeal path up to the High Courts and the Supreme Court. In plain terms, if you disagree with a direct tax assessment you may end up at ITAT, and if you are fighting a customs or excise demand you may end up at CESTAT. The data on eCourtsIndia now lets you follow either matter along that path.

The ITAT benches indexed here, and how to open each one

30 ITAT bench locations are currently indexed on eCourtsIndia, from the two giants in Delhi and Mumbai down to smaller benches like Varanasi and Jabalpur. ITAT operates 63 benches across its network of bench cities, under the Ministry of Law and Justice; eCourtsIndia currently indexes records from 30 of those bench locations. Each bench has a family of court codes you can drop straight into a search link. The counts below are live record totals, verified on 12 June 2026.

Bench	Indexed matters	Open the bench
Delhi	15,126	Search Delhi
Mumbai	11,433	Search Mumbai
Chennai	5,660	Search Chennai
Bangalore	3,983	Search Bangalore
Kolkata	3,142	Search Kolkata
Hyderabad	2,619	Search Hyderabad
Pune	2,618	Search Pune
Ahmedabad	2,072	Search Ahmedabad
Jaipur	1,567	Search Jaipur
Surat	1,336	Search Surat
Chandigarh	1,284	Search Chandigarh
Indore	1,270	Search Indore
Kochi	1,183	Search Kochi
Jodhpur	905	Search Jodhpur
Visakhapatnam	880	Search Visakhapatnam
Amritsar	874	Search Amritsar
Rajkot	755	Search Rajkot
Cuttack	749	Search Cuttack
Nagpur	696	Search Nagpur
Lucknow	584	Search Lucknow
Raipur	580	Search Raipur
Agra	509	Search Agra
Patna	475	Search Patna
Guwahati	448	Search Guwahati
Ranchi	426	Search Ranchi
Panaji	349	Search Panaji
Dehradun	319	Search Dehradun
Allahabad	287	Search Allahabad
Jabalpur	236	Search Jabalpur
Varanasi	210	Search Varanasi

The concentration tells a familiar story. Delhi at 15,126 matters and Mumbai at 11,433 sit far ahead of the rest, which is exactly what you would expect, since the largest assessments and the heaviest corporate tax disputes cluster around the two biggest commercial centres. Chennai, Bangalore and Kolkata form the next tier, and a long tail of smaller benches handles the regional caseload. Each link above opens that bench filtered and ready, so you can scan its pending appeals in a single click.

The ITAT case types you will see

ITAT uses a specific vocabulary of case-type codes, and a wrong code returns nothing, so it helps to know the main ones. The overwhelming majority of matters are plain income tax appeals, but the tribunal also carries a specialised tail that maps neatly onto the harder corners of direct tax. The table below shows the verified counts across the 30 indexed benches.

Case type	Code	What it is	Indexed matters
Income Tax Appeal	ITA	The ordinary appeal against a CIT(A) order	59,082
Cross Objection	XOBJ	The other side’s response within an appeal	533
Income Tax (Search and Seizure) Appeal	ITSSA	Appeals arising from search and seizure assessments	362
Income Tax (Transfer Pricing) Appeal	ITTPA	Cross-border related-party pricing disputes	344
Income Tax (International Taxation) Appeal	ITITA	Appeals on treaty and non-resident taxation	291
Black Money Appeal	BMA	Appeals under the Black Money Act, 2015	64
Wealth Tax Appeal	WTA	Legacy appeals under the Wealth Tax Act	29

That specialised tail is where the high-value litigation lives. Transfer pricing and international taxation appeals are usually the most complex matters a bench hears, often involving multinational groups and tax running into hundreds of crores, and they are now full-text searchable alongside the everyday appeals. To make sense of where any of these matters stand, the case status dictionary explains every status code in plain English. The case-type codes and bench court codes shown throughout this guide are a snapshot as of 12 June 2026; the authoritative, always-current list of case types and court codes (including newer tribunals such as GSTAT as they come online) is published in the eCourtsIndia API enums reference.

CESTAT on eCourtsIndia

CESTAT is now searchable too, with 5,128 matters live on the platform across six zonal benches. CESTAT covers the indirect tax appeals that pre-date and run alongside the GST regime, the customs, central excise and service tax disputes that still form a substantial pending caseload. Each bench has its own family of court codes, one stream each for customs, excise and service tax matters, that you can open with a cc= link. As an institution, CESTAT operates benches at Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Bangalore, Ahmedabad, Allahabad, Hyderabad and Chandigarh; of these, six are currently populated on eCourtsIndia (Ahmedabad, Delhi, Bangalore, Allahabad, Chennai and Chandigarh), while Mumbai, Kolkata and Hyderabad are not yet indexed.

Bench	Indexed matters	Open the bench
Ahmedabad	1,189	Search Ahmedabad
Delhi	1,165	Search Delhi
Bangalore	1,075	Search Bangalore
Allahabad	698	Search Allahabad
Chennai	585	Search Chennai
Chandigarh	416	Search Chandigarh

A note on the CESTAT data is worth making, because we would rather be precise than impressive. The CESTAT records currently lean heavily toward recent filings, so the share of pending matters is high and the historic disposed backlog is still being added. The benches above are the ones with live data today. As coverage deepens and the remaining benches are populated, these counts will grow, and you can always read the current total straight off the search page rather than relying on a number in a blog post.

How to check an ITAT or CESTAT case status

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

1. By party name. If you know the assessee or the company, type the name into the free-text box and add the bench filter. For example, open the Mumbai ITAT at ecourtsindia.com/search?cc=ITAMBIT and search the name. The index matches party names on both sides, so it works whether your name is the appellant or the respondent, and in tax matters the department is very often one of the parties. To trace one name 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 ITAT and CESTAT case, carries a 16-character CNR (Case Number Record, the permanent national identifier for a case) that never changes, even if the case is transferred or renumbered. The CNR begins with the bench code, so ITADLIT for the Delhi ITAT or CESDLCU for the Delhi CESTAT customs stream, 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 tax counsel or a researcher takes when scanning all pending transfer pricing appeals at a bench, or every service tax matter at a CESTAT zone. You do not need any special query syntax. Type natural keywords, a party name or a CNR, and lean on the sidebar filters to narrow the rest. For the full set of filters and parameters behind all of this, our eCourtsIndia search guide is the reference to keep open in another tab.

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 ITAT, where the reasoning in a transfer pricing or international taxation 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 section, doctrine or argument appears, which is exactly how a tax researcher builds a line of authority.

If you act in these matters, you can also pull the daily cause list (the schedule of cases listed for hearing on a given day) for a bench to see what is listed for hearing, the same workflow we describe for any court. As the order coverage for these tribunals deepens, the same full-text search that already powers the rest of the platform will reach across the whole tax appeal record.

Who this helps

The people who will feel this addition first are the ones who live in the tax system. Chartered accountants and tax counsel can look up every appeal for a client across benches in a single search, and organise the matters they follow client by client in their eCourtsIndia dashboard. Companies facing a transfer pricing or customs dispute can check where their own matter stands without logging into a separate tribunal portal. In-house finance and legal teams can fold direct and indirect tax exposure into the rest of their case research, the kind of client-wise case organisation we cover for in-house teams in our piece on legal due diligence on the eCourtsIndia API.

Individual taxpayers fighting an assessment can finally see where their appeal stands without chasing it through three systems. Journalists and researchers tracing how the tribunals treat a recurring issue can do it in one query. And students working on tax law now have a clean, full-text dataset to study. This is what we mean by putting the public record in a form a normal person can actually use.

What comes next

ITAT and CESTAT follow NCLT and NCLAT in our tribunal rollout, and there is more to come. We are adding the rest of India’s tribunals to eCourtsIndia in the weeks ahead, including 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 benches and case types are now being rolled out into the search picker, and the consumer disputes redressal commissions, which are now live. We are also deepening order coverage on the tribunals already live. Each gets 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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