DRT and DRAT Case Status on eCourtsIndia: Search Every Debt Recovery Tribunal

Debt Recovery Tribunal and Debt Recovery Appellate Tribunal records are now live on eCourtsIndia, so you can search every DRT and DRAT in the country from one place, by bank name, borrower name, CNR, case type, status or bench. The platform now indexes more than 74,000 DRT matters across all 39 tribunals and over 6,700 DRAT appeals across all 5 appellate tribunals (snapshot as of June 2026; counts grow as the tribunals upload new records). You can open any bench with a simple link, 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 debt recovery matter in one step.

Key takeaways

• All 39 Debt Recovery Tribunals are now searchable on ecourtsindia.com/search, holding more than 74,000 matters in total, roughly 43,000 pending and 27,000 disposed (the balance sit in other statuses).
• All 5 Debt Recovery Appellate Tribunals are live too, with more than 6,700 appeals between Delhi, Chennai, Mumbai, Allahabad and Kolkata.
• Together the two forums add more than 81,000 matters to the platform, all searchable the same way you search any other court.
• The single biggest case type is the Original Application, the recovery suit a bank files against a defaulting borrower, at 38,842 matters. Securitisation Applications, the borrower challenges under the SARFAESI Act, are the next big block.
• The two largest tribunals are DRT Delhi-1 with 8,400 matters and DRT Kolkata-2 with 6,157, and you can open either directly with a cc= search link.

What just went live on eCourtsIndia

We have added the Debt Recovery Tribunals and the Debt Recovery Appellate Tribunals to the eCourtsIndia index. That means the bank lending and loan enforcement layer of Indian litigation now sits alongside the Supreme Court, the High Courts, the district courts and the company law tribunals you could already search. Together the DRTs and DRATs add more than 81,000 matters to the platform, every one of them searchable, with order text where it has been uploaded.

This is the latest step in a series of tribunal additions. We started with the company law forums and have been working through the rest of India’s tribunal map. The debt recovery forums matter because they sit at the centre of the country’s bad loan problem, the place where a defaulted loan turns into a recovery certificate and where a borrower fights back against the seizure of a mortgaged asset. If you have ever tried to track a DRT matter through the official portals, you know the records are scattered tribunal by tribunal and hard to read together. eCourtsIndia stitches them into one searchable index, the same way we did for the company benches in our NCLT and NCLAT launch.

What DRT and DRAT are

The Debt Recovery Tribunal (DRT) is the specialist forum that hears bank and financial institution claims to recover defaulted loans, and the Debt Recovery Appellate Tribunal (DRAT) is the forum that hears appeals against its orders. DRTs were set up under the Recovery of Debts Due to Banks and Financial Institutions Act, 1993 (the RDB Act, renamed the Recovery of Debts and Bankruptcy Act, 1993 by the 2016 amendment). A bank or financial institution can take a borrower to the DRT to recover a debt of Rs 20 lakh and above, by filing what is called an Original Application. The tribunal then decides the claim and issues a recovery certificate that a recovery officer executes.

The DRT wears a second hat under the SARFAESI Act, 2002. When a secured lender enforces its security and takes possession of a mortgaged property, the borrower can challenge that action before the DRT under Section 17, in what the records call a Securitisation Application. So a single tribunal handles both the bank’s recovery suit and the borrower’s pushback against asset seizure. The DRAT sits above all of this. It hears appeals from DRT orders under both the RDB Act and the SARFAESI Act, and from a DRAT the next stop is the High Court. The data on eCourtsIndia now lets you follow a matter along that whole path.

The 39 DRT benches, and how to open each one

There are 39 Debt Recovery Tribunals spread across the country, from the heavyweights in Delhi and Kolkata down to single benches like Siliguri and Dehradun. Each one has a court code you can drop straight into a search link. The counts below are live record totals, verified on 13 June 2026, and the table is sorted from the largest tribunal to the smallest.

Tribunal	Court code	Indexed matters	Open the bench
DRT Delhi-1	DRTD1	8,400	Open Delhi-1
DRT Kolkata-2	DRTK2	6,157	Open Kolkata-2
DRT Pune	DRTPU	2,792	Open Pune
DRT Allahabad	DRTAL	2,536	Open Allahabad
DRT Ahmedabad-1	DRTA1	2,521	Open Ahmedabad-1
DRT Jaipur	DRTJP	2,442	Open Jaipur
DRT Jabalpur	DRTJB	2,219	Open Jabalpur
DRT Bangalore-1	DRTB1	2,132	Open Bangalore-1
DRT Delhi-2	DRTD2	2,056	Open Delhi-2
DRT Bangalore-2	DRTB2	1,987	Open Bangalore-2
DRT Delhi-3	DRTD3	1,927	Open Delhi-3
DRT Patna	DRTPT	1,851	Open Patna
DRT Madurai	DRTMD	1,834	Open Madurai
DRT Ahmedabad-2	DRTA2	1,803	Open Ahmedabad-2
DRT Ernakulam-1	DRTE1	1,772	Open Ernakulam-1
DRT Kolkata-1	DRTK1	1,750	Open Kolkata-1
DRT Chandigarh-1	DRTC1	1,711	Open Chandigarh-1
DRT Chandigarh-2	DRTC2	1,682	Open Chandigarh-2
DRT Lucknow	DRTLK	1,664	Open Lucknow
DRT Guwahati	DRTGU	1,649	Open Guwahati
DRT Ernakulam-2	DRTE2	1,495	Open Ernakulam-2
DRT Mumbai-2	DRTM2	1,461	Open Mumbai-2
DRT Visakhapatnam	DRTVZ	1,415	Open Visakhapatnam
DRT Chandigarh-3	DRTC3	1,397	Open Chandigarh-3
DRT Aurangabad	DRTAU	1,397	Open Aurangabad
DRT Coimbatore	DRTCB	1,361	Open Coimbatore
DRT Chennai-2	DRTN2	1,350	Open Chennai-2
DRT Cuttack	DRTCU	1,346	Open Cuttack
DRT Kolkata-3	DRTK3	1,332	Open Kolkata-3
DRT Mumbai-1	DRTM1	1,288	Open Mumbai-1
DRT Hyderabad-2	DRTH2	1,283	Open Hyderabad-2
DRT Ranchi	DRTRN	1,261	Open Ranchi
DRT Chennai-3	DRTN3	1,201	Open Chennai-3
DRT Chennai-1	DRTN1	1,183	Open Chennai-1
DRT Mumbai-3	DRTM3	1,168	Open Mumbai-3
DRT Hyderabad-1	DRTH1	1,059	Open Hyderabad-1
DRT Nagpur	DRTNG	965	Open Nagpur
DRT Dehradun	DRTDD	889	Open Dehradun
DRT Siliguri	DRTSL	820	Open Siliguri

The concentration here tells a real story. Delhi-1 and Kolkata-2 alone carry nearly 20 percent of every DRT matter on the platform, which fits the pattern of large corporate borrowing clustering around the big commercial and financial centres. To turn one of these court codes into a live result, just paste it into a cc= search link, the same way the company benches work in our NCLT and NCLAT guide.

DRAT on eCourtsIndia

The five Debt Recovery Appellate Tribunals are now searchable too, holding more than 6,700 appeals in total, roughly 4,300 disposed and 2,450 pending. Each DRAT supervises a cluster of DRTs in its region, so an order from a DRT in its zone travels up to the DRAT that sits above it.

Appellate tribunal	Court code	Indexed matters	Open the bench
DRAT Delhi	DRADL	3,104	Open Delhi
DRAT Chennai	DRACN	1,512	Open Chennai
DRAT Mumbai	DRAMU	860	Open Mumbai
DRAT Allahabad	DRAAL	854	Open Allahabad
DRAT Kolkata	DRAKL	441	Open Kolkata

DRAT Delhi is the busiest appellate tribunal by a wide margin, with 3,104 appeals, close to half of every DRAT matter on the platform. The dominant case type across all five DRATs is the appeal itself, which makes sense because the appellate forum exists to review DRT decisions rather than to start fresh recovery actions. Because a DRAT order is the last tribunal stop before the matter reaches a High Court, its reasoning carries real weight, and those orders are now full-text searchable on the platform.

How to check a DRT or DRAT case status

To check a DRT or DRAT case status, open eCourtsIndia search, filter to the right tribunal using its court code, then search by the bank or borrower name or the CNR. There are three reliable routes, depending on what you already know.

1. By party name. If you know the bank or the borrower, type the name into the free-text box and add the tribunal filter. For example, open DRT Mumbai-1 and search the borrower’s name, or search a lender like State Bank of India to see its recovery applications at that bench. The index matches party names on both sides, so it works whether your party is the applicant bank or the defendant borrower. To trace one borrower across every tribunal at once, drop the bench filter and search the name alone, or use the dedicated litigant search.

2. By CNR. Every matter, including every DRT and DRAT case, carries a 16 character CNR that never changes, even if the case is transferred or renumbered. A DRT CNR begins with the bench code, so DRTM1 for Mumbai-1 or DRTD1 for Delhi-1, followed by the case-type letters, the running number and the 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 tribunal with its cc= link and use the sidebar to narrow by case type, status and filing year. This is the route a recovery officer or a borrower’s counsel takes when scanning all the pending securitisation applications at a bench. The same logic applies to a DRAT once you filter to the right appellate tribunal.

The DRT case types you will see

DRTs use 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 39 tribunals, with their snapshot counts (verified 13 June 2026; figures refresh as records are added). The case-type and court-code lists here are a point-in-time snapshot; the authoritative, always-current set is published at the eCourtsIndia API enums endpoint, which is updated as benches and case types are added.

Case type	What it is	Indexed matters
Original Application	The recovery suit a bank or financial institution files against a defaulting borrower under the RDB Act	38,842
Securitisation Application	The borrower’s challenge to a lender’s enforcement action under Section 17 of the SARFAESI Act	17,960
Miscellaneous Application	Side applications filed inside an ongoing matter	5,523
Transfer Application	Cases transferred into the DRT, many from civil courts when the tribunals were set up	4,562
Transfer Securitisation Application	Transferred securitisation challenges carried over into the DRT	3,657
Appeal	Appeals routed through the tribunal	2,009

The pattern here is the heart of the debt recovery story. Original Applications, the banks chasing their money, are the single largest block at 38,842 matters, just over half of everything on the DRT side. Right behind them sit the securitisation challenges. Add the Securitisation Applications and the transferred securitisation matters together and you get more than 21,000 cases where a borrower is fighting the seizure of a mortgaged asset under the SARFAESI Act. In other words, the DRT is not just a collection counter for lenders, it is also where borrowers go to push back. For the full vocabulary across every court, including the recovery 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.

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 it has been uploaded, the full text of the tribunal’s orders. For a DRT, where a recovery certificate or an order on a securitisation application can decide whether a borrower keeps a property, 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, argument or kind of asset comes up.

If you act in these matters, you can also pull the daily cause list for a tribunal to see what is listed for hearing, the same workflow we describe for any court. There is no special query syntax to memorise: type natural keywords, a party name or a CNR, and let the facet filters in the sidebar do the narrowing. For a complete tour of the filters and search 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 recovery system. Bank recovery officers and law officers can look up every Original Application they have filed and read the appeals against them, then add the live ones to a client to get Email and WhatsApp updates when an order, hearing date or status changes. Asset reconstruction companies and their counsel can search securitisation matters across every tribunal from one place, then organise the cases that matter under a client to keep tabs on them. Borrowers and guarantors facing a recovery certificate or a possession notice can finally see their own matter without chasing three portals. General counsel and compliance teams can fold DRT and DRAT cases in alongside the rest of their litigation, organised client by client, or wire the records into their own systems through the API, the kind of workflow we cover for in-house teams in our piece on legal due diligence on the eCourtsIndia API.

Journalists tracing a stressed borrower across benches can do it in one query. Researchers studying how the SARFAESI Act plays out in practice now have a clean, full-text dataset to work from. And anyone trying to understand the real shape of India’s bad loan litigation can see it laid out, tribunal by tribunal, in numbers that update as the courts do. This is what we mean by putting the public record in a form a normal person can actually use.

What comes next

The Debt Recovery Tribunals and their appellate forum are now part of the index, alongside the company law benches and the tax tribunals we have already added. We are continuing to bring the rest of India’s tribunals onto eCourtsIndia on a rolling basis, with the consumer disputes redressal commissions already live, support for the GST Appellate Tribunal (GSTAT) being added, and more forums following. Each one gets the same treatment, one searchable index, full-text orders where available, and no paywall on the public record. Bookmark the search and check back as each one goes live.

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