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Category: Court Data Stories
Narrative, human-interest stories backed by court data — celebrity cases, legal deserts, busiest courts, and the journey of a case from filing to verdict.
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The Indian Family Property Dispute Index 2026: 4.6 Lakh Court Files Behind Every Family Argument
A live snapshot of 2,56,210 partition cases, 1,36,156 succession matters, 57,114 probate petitions and 14,091 mutation files from the eCourtsIndia database. How long Indian families wait, where they fight, and the rules that finally tilted toward daughters in 2020.
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The Indian Disposal-Time Index 2026
How long does a court case actually take in India, state by state, type by type. A data-driven study of 3,308 disposed cases sampled from the eCourtsIndia search index, spread across 14 High Courts and 12 states at the district court tier.
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PMLA Bail Reality Check: 14,134 Money Laundering Matters After Vijay Madanlal Choudhary
14,134 PMLA matters indexed across Indian courts. 2,66,583 cases name the Enforcement Directorate. Section 45’s twin conditions still drive almost every PMLA bail decision after the Hon’ble Supreme Court’s 2022 ruling in Vijay Madanlal Choudhary.
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The Election Petition Graveyard: 11,967 EPs the High Courts Have Not Decided
40,453 Election Petitions across India’s High Courts. 11,967 still pending. The Representation of People Act, 1951 sets a six-month soft deadline for trial. The data shows that deadline is the most widely missed in Indian procedural law.
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The NCLT Scorecard: India’s Insolvency Tribunals by the Numbers
1,82,517 insolvency matters across India’s seven largest NCLT benches. 35,607 Company Petitions under the IBC. Mumbai and Delhi NCLT roughly tied at 49,941 and 49,771 each. A clean per-bench scorecard with the marquee insolvencies and the financial-creditor footprint.
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Cheque Bounce: India’s Silent Litigation Crisis
43,05,932 cheque bounce matters pending nationwide per the Ministry of Law. The eCourtsIndia full-text index lets us see the appellate-layer slice — 3,581 indexed cases concentrated in UP, Delhi, Maharashtra. A clean look at the country’s most common criminal complaint.
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The Conglomerate Litigation Map: Adani, Reliance, Tata and Birla in Indian Courts
Verified court-record counts for the Adani, Reliance, Tata and Aditya Birla group entities, drawn from the eCourtsIndia database. Tata Motors alone is named in 85,749 matters.
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498A by the Numbers: What 3,04,556 Court Records Reveal About India’s Most Debated Cruelty Section
A live snapshot of 3,04,556 Section 498A IPC matters from the eCourtsIndia database. How many are pending (45.6%), how many were quashed, where they pile up, and what the orders themselves say.
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The Bank Litigation Index: HDFC Files More Court Cases Than Any Other Lender in India
HDFC Bank is named in 15.6 lakh court matters across the eCourtsIndia database, more than double SBI at 7.35 lakh. A clean, verified league table of India’s eight largest banks by court footprint, with the case-type and filing-year breakdowns.
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