District courts, High Courts and the Supreme Court get a 16-character case number from the eCourts system. Tribunals such as NCLT, ITAT and NGT do not. eCourtsIndia mints a deterministic 16-character CNR for 14 tribunals, so a tribunal case works with the same API call as a district court case.
Length: 0:57 · Published on YouTube: 2026-09-24 · Watch on YouTube · Subscribe to eCourtsIndia
What this video shows
- Why tribunal cases have no government-issued CNR
- How the eCourtsIndia tribunal CNR is built, character by character
- A real example: GTLPTAP000792026 is GSTAT Patna, appeal 79 of 2026
- Nothing is hashed, so the code stays readable
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