Government platforms · India
NALSA is different from everything else on this list: it's not primarily a database, it's a delivery mechanism for actual free legal representation, guaranteed by the Legal Services Authorities Act 1987 to people who qualify…
Government platforms · India
The Income Tax Department is India's single largest litigant, and NJRS is the internal system it built to stop reinventing arguments it has already made (and won or lost) in the past. It holds Income Tax Appellate Tribunal, High Court,…
Government platforms · India
Here's a fact that surprises people who've only used India Code: the Gazette, not India Code, is the legally authoritative version of a notification or Act. India Code is the government's own convenient repository, but if a lawyer needs…
Government platforms · India
The Right to Information Act gave Indian citizens a legal right to demand information from public authorities, and this portal is how that right becomes a filed application rather than an abstract entitlement. You pay a small statutory…
Government platforms · India
NCLT decides company-law disputes and, since the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, most corporate insolvency cases too — which makes it one of the busiest and most economically consequential tribunals in the country. Cause lists are public;…
Government platforms · India
India Code aggregates state legislation, but each state also runs its own law department and gazette, and occasionally state-level material shows up there before it's reflected centrally. If you're researching a state amendment and India…
Private, Non-Profit & Media Platforms · India
Ask any Indian law student which free case-law site they open first, and the honest answer is almost always Indian Kanoon, not a government portal. Built by a single computer scientist, Sushant Sinha, starting in 2007, it now holds over…
Private, Non-Profit & Media Platforms · India
LIIofIndia belongs to a worldwide family: the Free Access to Law Movement, a loose alliance of university-run "Legal Information Institutes" (Cornell's LII in the US, AustLII in Australia, BAILII in the UK) that share both a philosophy —…
Private, Non-Profit & Media Platforms · India
CaseMine's pitch is different from a plain search box: it visualises how cases cite each other, so instead of reading one judgment in isolation, you can see the web of precedent around it — what it relied on, and what later cited it. The…
Private, Non-Profit & Media Platforms · India
Live Law occupies an unusual niche: part legal-news outlet, part judgment archive. It publishes same-day summaries of Supreme Court and High Court rulings alongside the actual order as a downloadable PDF, which means you often get both…