Calcutta High Court case status
Check Calcutta High Court case status by case number or by party name. The oldest High Court in India, it sits at Kolkata with circuit benches at Jalpaiguri and Port Blair.
Kolkata itself is split into an Original Side and an Appellate Side, which are separate registers. Getting that wrong is the usual reason a Calcutta search finds nothing.
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Before you search
Four things, and all four have to be right.
Get one wrong and you get an empty result, not an error. That's what makes these searches so frustrating.
- Case type. The same number goes out under every type each year. A writ petition and a criminal appeal can both be 1234.
- Case number. The number allotted when the case was registered.
- Year. When it was filed, not the year of your next hearing.
- Bench. this court sits in 4 places, and each keeps its own register. They're listed below.
Worth keeping to hand: your CNR, the 16-character code printed on every order and filing receipt. It never changes, so it's the thing to quote when you deal with the registry, and it's what a district court search takes as its key.
Benches
Pick the right seat, or you'll find nothing.
Each bench of the Calcutta High Court keeps its own register and its own cause list. A case filed at one simply doesn't appear in a search of another, and that, far more than anything else, is why a search you're sure should work comes back empty.
- Original Side
- Appellate Side
- Circuit Bench at Jalpaiguri
- Circuit Bench at Port Blair
Cause list
Where your case falls in the day.
The registry publishes the next day's running order each evening: court number, bench, and where your matter sits in the list. Each bench publishes its own. Find your case above, then track it and we'll tell you when it's next listed.
Other names
Same court, different names.
People search the Calcutta High Court as Kolkata High Court, West Bengal High Court. They're all the same court, and this page covers every one of them.
Questions
The things people ask us.
Is it the Calcutta High Court or the Kolkata High Court?
The city was renamed Kolkata in 2001 but the court kept its original style, so it is formally the Calcutta High Court. Both names refer to the same court.
Which side is my Calcutta High Court case on?
A suit begun in the High Court itself sits on the Original Side, which covers the Presidency town of Kolkata. An appeal or a writ from a court below sits on the Appellate Side. The two are separate registers, so a search of one does not reach the other.
Does the Calcutta High Court cover the Andaman and Nicobar Islands?
Yes, through its circuit bench at Port Blair. The Jalpaiguri circuit bench serves the northern districts of West Bengal.
How old is the Calcutta High Court?
It was established in 1862, which makes it the oldest High Court in India.
Elsewhere
Other High Courts.
If this isn't your court
Where to look instead.
Filed somewhere else? Patna High Court, Jharkhand High Court and Orissa High Court sit next door. If you are not sure which High Court a case belongs to, the High Court case status directory is the place to start, and the seat is decided by where the case was filed rather than where you live.
A matter below the High Court will not be on this register at all. For those, use court case status from the taluka court up, which also accepts a CNR.
We read the public eCourts record, so this is only as current as the registry has published. If something turns on a deadline or a limitation period, check with the registry or your advocate. Don't rely on us for that. If it's the law itself you need, the bare acts are here in full.