Karnataka High Court case status
Check Karnataka High Court case status by case number or by party name. The court runs from three places: Bengaluru, Dharwad and Kalaburagi, and each keeps its own register.
Most people search this court as the Bangalore High Court, which is the principal bench rather than the court’s name. Pick the seat where the case was filed before you assume a search has failed.
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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 3 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 Karnataka 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.
- Principal Bench at Bengaluru
- Bench at Dharwad
- Bench at Kalaburagi
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 Karnataka High Court as Bangalore High Court, Bengaluru High Court. They're all the same court, and this page covers every one of them.
Questions
The things people ask us.
Is there a Bangalore High Court?
Not by that name. The Karnataka High Court has its principal bench at Bengaluru, and that is what people mean by the Bangalore High Court. Dharwad and Kalaburagi are its other two benches.
Which Karnataka High Court bench is my case at?
It follows the district where the case arose. North Karnataka districts go to Dharwad, the Kalyana Karnataka districts to Kalaburagi, and the rest to Bengaluru. Each bench keeps a separate register, so a search of one does not reach the others.
How do I check Karnataka High Court case status?
Choose the bench, then search by case number with its type and year, or by party name with the year.
What was Kalaburagi called before?
Gulbarga. The city was renamed in 2014 and the bench is now listed as Kalaburagi, though older papers and searches still use the old name.
Elsewhere
Other High Courts.
If this isn't your court
Where to look instead.
Filed somewhere else? Madras High Court, Kerala High Court and Telangana High Court sit next door. If you are not sure which High Court a case belongs to, the High Court case status hub 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 for district courts, 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.