Indian judgments are public. Lekha indexes the official open-data archives of the Supreme Court and the High Courts — the same primary material commercial research platforms charge for — published under a Creative Commons licence. We link to the source, we don't re-host. Coverage below is read live from the archive; last verified 2026-08-14.
Automated daily verification: 69 registry sources + open corpora last checked 2026-08-14 — reachable.
Judgments indexed 1950–2026 · 77 years
Supreme Court of India judgments, via the open-data archive on the Registry of Open Data on AWS.
Browse the archive at the sourceJudgments indexed 1950–2026 · 77 years
Indian High Court judgments (eCourts), via the open-data archive on the Registry of Open Data on AWS.
Browse the archive at the sourceToday: searchable Supreme Court and High Court metadata — party names and case numbers (derived from the archive's own listing), neutral citation, CNR, decision date, year and the official PDF — ingested daily from the open archives, newest years first. Our hand-curated landmark case explainers sit on top, in plain English.
Now searchable three ways: metadata (Supreme Court + High Courts), full-text keyword within Supreme Court judgment bodies (modern years complete; the historical archive back toward 1950 is being OCR'd in from scanned volumes), and semantic (meaning-based) search over recent Supreme Court judgments that finds cases by the legal question they answer. On the roadmap (beta): AI-drafted, expert-reviewed headnotes — clearly labelled and pending review, never a statement of how a court would decide your matter.
Educational, not legal advice. Judgments are reproduced and linked under their open licence; always read the official copy at the source and confirm with a qualified advocate.