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

Last updated: 23 September 2026. Both bench tables rebuilt from the live index (DRT counts are now several times larger than at launch), empty codes removed from every link, and the tribunal CNR generator added.

To check a DRT or DRAT case status online, open eCourtsIndia search, pick the tribunal by its court code (for example DRTM1 codes for DRT Mumbai-1), then search the bank or borrower name or paste the 16-character CNR. All 39 Debt Recovery Tribunals and all 5 Debt Recovery Appellate Tribunals sit in the same free index as the Supreme Court, the High Courts and the district courts, and the search box reads inside the full text of uploaded orders. As of 23 September 2026 the index holds 8 lakh+ DRT records, 5 lakh+ of them Original Applications, and 11,000+ DRAT records. This guide gives you every tribunal link, the case types and four ways to find a recovery matter.

Key takeaways

• All 39 Debt Recovery Tribunals are searchable on ecourtsindia.com/search, with 8,30,749 records as of 23 September 2026.
• Original Applications, the recovery claims banks file against borrowers, are the largest block at 5,16,707. Securitisation Applications, the borrower challenges under the SARFAESI Act, come next at 1,91,143.
• The three Chandigarh tribunals and DRT Bangalore-1 carry the largest Original Application streams, each with more than 23,000.
• All 5 DRATs are live too, with 11,213 records between Delhi, Chennai, Mumbai, Kolkata and Allahabad. Most DRAT matters sit under the appeal (AP) codes.
• Have only the tribunal’s own case number? The DRT CNR generator and DRAT CNR generator turn it into a CNR you can search and track.

Where DRT and DRAT sit on eCourtsIndia

The debt recovery forums are two of 18 tribunal and commission types in the eCourtsIndia index, which together hold 44 lakh+ tribunal records. The same search covers the insolvency benches in our NCLT and NCLAT guide, where many of the same borrowers turn up once a lender switches from recovery to insolvency, as well as the tax tribunals, SAT, CAT and the consumer commissions. Our India courts and eCourts access directory lists every forum in one place.

For anyone who works on bad loans, this means one search across all 44 debt recovery forums. A recovery claim can be followed from the DRT to the DRAT and on to the High Court, and the same bank or borrower can be traced across every tribunal in a single query. If you want the lender side of the picture first, our Bank Litigation Index ranks India’s banks by court footprint, and the PSU Litigation Index does the same for public sector companies and regulators.

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) hears appeals against its orders. DRTs were set up under the Recovery of Debts Due to Banks and Financial Institutions Act, 1993, 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 or more by filing an Original Application. The tribunal decides the claim and issues a recovery certificate that a recovery officer executes.

The DRT has a second role 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 one tribunal handles both the bank’s recovery claim and the borrower’s pushback against asset seizure. The DRAT hears appeals from DRT orders under both Acts, and from a DRAT the next stop is the High Court.

Forum	What it hears	How many	Goes next to
DRT	Original Applications by lenders (Rs 20 lakh and above), Securitisation Applications by borrowers under SARFAESI Section 17	39 tribunals	DRAT
DRAT	Appeals against DRT orders under the RDB Act and the SARFAESI Act	5 appellate tribunals	High Court

All 39 DRTs, and how to open each one

Each DRT has a family of court codes: the prefix DRT, a two-character bench code such as D1 for Delhi-1 or M1 for Mumbai-1, and a two-letter case type such as OA for Original Applications or SA for Securitisation Applications. The links below open every code that actually holds records at that tribunal, and nothing else, so none of them lands on an empty page. The table is sorted by the size of each tribunal’s Original Application stream, and codes were re-verified against the live court-code list on 23 September 2026.

Tribunal	Bench code	Original Applications	Securitisation Applications	All records	Open the tribunal
DRT Chandigarh-1	DRTC1	28,278	4,052	34,879	Open Chandigarh-1
DRT Chandigarh-2	DRTC2	26,754	4,130	32,575	Open Chandigarh-2
DRT Bangalore-1	DRTB1	25,721	5,277	31,616	Open Bangalore-1
DRT Chandigarh-3	DRTC3	23,636	3,028	28,491	Open Chandigarh-3
DRT Bangalore-2	DRTB2	20,273	4,302	28,191	Open Bangalore-2
DRT Pune	DRTPU	19,720	5,949	27,100	Open Pune
DRT Jabalpur	DRTJB	18,099	9,752	29,013	Open Jabalpur
DRT Allahabad	DRTAL	17,998	7,845	29,253	Open Allahabad
DRT Lucknow	DRTLK	16,816	9,794	28,512	Open Lucknow
DRT Ahmedabad-2	DRTA2	16,592	6,155	23,678	Open Ahmedabad-2
DRT Visakhapatnam	DRTVZ	15,664	5,377	22,386	Open Visakhapatnam
DRT Jaipur	DRTJP	15,300	6,046	23,690	Open Jaipur
DRT Delhi-2	DRTD2	14,730	3,454	28,507	Open Delhi-2
DRT Delhi-1	DRTD1	14,716	5,081	29,281	Open Delhi-1
DRT Ahmedabad-1	DRTA1	13,971	4,348	21,147	Open Ahmedabad-1
DRT Madurai	DRTMD	13,758	9,350	27,083	Open Madurai
DRT Mumbai-3	DRTM3	13,311	3,455	17,903	Open Mumbai-3
DRT Hyderabad-2	DRTH2	13,105	3,928	19,756	Open Hyderabad-2
DRT Chennai-2	DRTN2	12,809	5,542	22,002	Open Chennai-2
DRT Cuttack	DRTCU	12,362	1,862	16,033	Open Cuttack
DRT Kolkata-1	DRTK1	11,382	4,225	19,662	Open Kolkata-1
DRT Delhi-3	DRTD3	11,364	6,977	21,713	Open Delhi-3
DRT Ernakulam-1	DRTE1	11,106	7,518	21,383	Open Ernakulam-1
DRT Mumbai-2	DRTM2	10,875	4,009	19,258	Open Mumbai-2
DRT Kolkata-3	DRTK3	10,626	8,160	25,056	Open Kolkata-3
DRT Patna	DRTPT	10,577	4,371	17,617	Open Patna
DRT Coimbatore	DRTCB	10,147	8,548	24,317	Open Coimbatore
DRT Ranchi	DRTRN	9,803	1,264	11,971	Open Ranchi
DRT Aurangabad	DRTAU	9,724	3,533	13,940	Open Aurangabad
DRT Chennai-1	DRTN1	9,321	2,893	15,396	Open Chennai-1
DRT Guwahati	DRTGU	8,335	1,697	12,637	Open Guwahati
DRT Hyderabad-1	DRTH1	8,152	3,569	12,627	Open Hyderabad-1
DRT Chennai-3	DRTN3	8,005	4,681	19,334	Open Chennai-3
DRT Ernakulam-2	DRTE2	7,664	5,627	17,154	Open Ernakulam-2
DRT Nagpur	DRTNG	7,194	2,837	11,403	Open Nagpur
DRT Mumbai-1	DRTM1	6,759	1,507	11,998	Open Mumbai-1
DRT Kolkata-2	DRTK2	5,541	7,024	19,361	Open Kolkata-2
DRT Dehradun	DRTDD	4,973	2,297	9,193	Open Dehradun
DRT Siliguri	DRTSL	1,546	1,679	5,633	Open Siliguri

The biggest recovery streams are not where you might guess. The three Chandigarh tribunals together hold more than 78,000 Original Applications, and DRT Bangalore-1 and Bangalore-2 add nearly 46,000 more. Jabalpur, Allahabad, Lucknow and Pune each carry more than 16,000, which shows how much of India’s recovery litigation now sits outside the metros. The Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata tribunals are large too, but the load is spread more evenly across the country than the old launch snapshot suggested. When this guide first ran in June 2026 the index held about 74,000 DRT matters; it now holds more than ten times that.

All 5 DRATs

Each DRAT supervises a cluster of DRTs in its region, so an order from a DRT in that zone travels up to the DRAT above it. DRAT records use the prefix DRA, and nearly all appeals sit under the AP code for each bench. Delhi also carries a separate block under DRADLOA. The links include only the codes that hold records.

Appellate tribunal	Bench code	Appeals (AP code)	All records	Open the tribunal
DRAT Delhi	DRADL	2,916	5,059	Open Delhi
DRAT Chennai	DRACN	2,095	2,252	Open Chennai
DRAT Mumbai	DRAMU	1,248	1,429	Open Mumbai
DRAT Kolkata	DRAKL	1,217	1,278	Open Kolkata
DRAT Allahabad	DRAAL	702	1,195	Open Allahabad

DRAT Delhi is the busiest appellate tribunal by a wide margin, with close to half of all DRAT records on the platform, followed by Chennai. Because a DRAT order is the last tribunal stop before a matter reaches a High Court, its reasoning carries real weight in recovery and SARFAESI practice, and those orders are full-text searchable here. When a party challenges a DRAT order, it usually does so through a writ petition in the High Court, and because the High Courts sit in the same index, you can follow the matter there with the same party-name search.

How to check a DRT or DRAT case status

Open eCourtsIndia search, narrow to the tribunal with its court codes, then search by bank or borrower name or CNR. There are four reliable routes, depending on what you already have.

1. By party name. Type the bank or borrower name into the free-text box and add the tribunal filter, for example the DRT Mumbai-1 link in the table above. The index matches party names on both sides, so it works whether your party is the applicant bank or the defendant borrower or guarantor. To trace one borrower across every tribunal and court at once, drop the filter or use the litigant search; our litigant search guide explains how to handle spelling variants.

2. By CNR. Every DRT and DRAT matter on eCourtsIndia carries a 16-character CNR: the prefix DRT or DRA, the two-character bench, the two-letter case type, a five-digit case number and the year. So a Mumbai-1 Original Application starts DRTM1OA. Paste the CNR into the search and you land on that case. Our guide to the CNR number decoded explains each character.

3. From the tribunal’s own case number. If you have an OA or SA number from a notice or the DRT website, open the DRT CNR generator (or the DRAT CNR generator for an appeal), choose the tribunal and case type, enter the number and year, and copy the CNR it builds. The tribunal CNR explainer publishes every bench and case-type code.

4. By tribunal, then filter. To browse, open a tribunal with its link above and narrow by case type, status and filing year in the sidebar. This is how a recovery officer or a borrower’s counsel scans all pending securitisation applications at a bench. Every filter and URL parameter is explained in the eCourtsIndia search guide.

The DRT case types you will see

DRT case types follow the two-letter code in the court code, and a wrong code returns nothing, so it helps to know the main ones. The table adds each stream up across all 39 tribunals.

Case type	Code	What it is	Indexed records
Original Application	OA	The recovery claim a bank or financial institution files against a defaulting borrower under the RDB Act	5,16,707
Securitisation Application	SA	The borrower’s challenge to a lender’s enforcement action under Section 17 of the SARFAESI Act	1,91,143
Transfer Application	TA	Recovery cases transferred into a DRT from another forum	51,239
Miscellaneous Application	MA	Side applications filed inside an ongoing matter	43,073
Transfer Securitisation Application	TS	Securitisation challenges transferred into a DRT	16,856
Appeal	AP	Appeals routed through the tribunal	4,293

This is the heart of the debt recovery story. Original Applications, the banks chasing their money, are the largest block by far, and of those roughly six in ten are disposed and about a third are pending. Right behind them sit the securitisation challenges: add the Securitisation Applications and the transferred securitisation matters and you get more than 2 lakh cases where a borrower is contesting the seizure of a mortgaged asset. The DRT is not just a collection counter for lenders; it is also where borrowers push back. For the wider vocabulary, see the case type encyclopedia, and to decode a status, the case status dictionary explains all 71 codes. The always-current code list is in the API enum reference.

Reading orders and keeping a matter on watch

On a case page you get the order sheet and, where 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. The free-text box searches inside that text, so you can find every matter where a particular section, argument or kind of asset comes up.

To follow a matter without checking daily, add it to tracking and switch on WhatsApp and email alerts for new orders, hearing dates and status changes. Tracking is Rs 5 per case per month and each alert Rs 0.50; our case alerts guide shows the setup, and the AI Clerk can summarise a long order for Rs 2. The Android app and iOS app carry the same tracking. Prices are on the pricing page; searching stays free.

Who this helps

Bank recovery officers and law officers can look up every Original Application they have filed, read the appeals against them and put the live ones on alerts. Asset reconstruction companies and their counsel can search securitisation matters across every tribunal from one place. Credit and risk teams checking a new borrower or guarantor can run a LegalCheck report, which pulls court records against a verified identity, or follow our background check guide to do it by hand. Teams that need this at volume can use the eCourtsIndia API (23 endpoints, Rs 200 of free credits on signup), as described in legal due diligence on the eCourtsIndia API.

Borrowers and guarantors facing a recovery certificate or a possession notice can see their own matter without chasing it across tribunal portals, and the verified advocate directory lists bar-card verified lawyers they can contact. Journalists tracing a stressed borrower across benches can do it in one query, and researchers studying how the SARFAESI Act plays out in practice get a clean, full-text dataset. Where a recovery turns into an insolvency, pick up the trail in our NCLT scorecard.

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