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Criminal Court Record

Searches civil and criminal court records across every jurisdiction a candidate has lived in, with an advocate reviewing every potential match against corroborating identifiers before it's ever shown as a flag.

  • 3–10 daystypical turnaround
  • 4sources checked
  • 4signals the engine watches for
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Supported Checks/Sources

Court & Tribunal Sources

We cross-reference every major court database, tribunal record, and e-courts platform in real time.

Supreme Court

Appeals and writs that have moved beyond a High Court, searched separately.

High Courts

Matters escalated beyond the district court, searched across every jurisdiction lived in.

District Courts

Case-type and party-name search across every address in the lookback period.

Tribunals

Consumer, labour and other tribunal matters outside the ordinary court hierarchy.

NCRB Data

National Crime Records Bureau cross-referenced against the candidate's identity.

ICJS Data

Inter-operable Criminal Justice System integrated search across police and courts.

Police records

An optional in-person station confirmation beyond what's digitised on eCourts.

What we actually check

Rigorous criminal background screening

We cover every jurisdiction a candidate has lived in, backed by meticulous identity corroboration.

Jurisdiction coverage

Every address the candidate has lived at is a jurisdiction the search has to cover, not just the current city.

Confirmed
FieldDeclaredVerified
Jurisdictions searched3 declared addresses4 searched — includes 1 undeclared prior address
Sources

Where the answers come from

Our process interrogates primary court records across all levels of the judiciary.

NCRB & Police Records

Cross-referenced directly against National Crime Records Bureau datasets and local police records for FIRs.

API · NCRB / Police

ICJS Data

Deep search within the Inter-operable Criminal Justice System connecting FIRs, court proceedings, and prison records.

API · ICJS

District and sessions courts

Case-type and party-name search across every jurisdiction the candidate has lived in.

eCourts · district

High Court records

Appeals, writs and matters that have moved beyond the district court, searched separately.

eCourts · High Court

Police station verification

A local station confirms no locally held record beyond what's digitised on eCourts.

In-person · optional add-on

eCourts index

The national case-tracking index used to decide where to search further.

API · national index
Live simulation

Watch each court source answer, one at a time

An index search produces name hits that mean nothing until an identifier rules them in or out. Pick a source to watch that specific search run.

Party name · lookback
How it runs

From consent to a routed decision

Our process ensures false positives are removed by our expert advocate review team.

  • Name matches scored against corroborating identifiers
  • Case status pulled fresh, not from a cached index
  • Non-digitised jurisdictions flagged for a manual visit
  • Relevance to the role assessed case by case
  • Client's risk policy applied to what's disqualifying
  • Case listing and review note attached as evidence

Touring all 3 — pick a step to hold it

Two ways this check closes

What a discrepancy looks like — next to what a clean pass looks like

Most cases close like the record on the right. The one on the left is a real, corroborated match, documented exactly as an adjudicator would see it.

CRI-8821-X
Live
Evidence

Pending case, corroborated match

Discrepancy
DeclaredVerified
Declared history
No pending or prior criminal cases
1 pending case — Section 138 NI Act, cheque dishonour
Corroborating identifiers
Father's name and address match the case filing
Case status
Pending, next hearing 14 Oct 2026
Jurisdiction
3 addresses declared
4th jurisdiction (previous address, 2018–2020) searched — case originated there
Escalated

Advocate-reviewed before the flag was ever shown — a name-only match is never surfaced without corroboration, and here every identifier lined up. Routed to the client's own risk policy: role relevance and the nature of the matter determine whether it's treated as disqualifying or simply noted.

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Fields reconciled
Method
eCourts case-type and party-name search across every declared and previously-resident jurisdiction, corroborated against father's name, date of birth and address before being surfaced to the adjudicator.
Source
District & Sessions Court, previous city of residence · eCourts index
Captured
17 Aug 2026, 09:50 IST
Retention
Case listing and advocate review note retained 7 years
CRI-9012-C
Live
Evidence

No matching record across four jurisdictions

Verified
DeclaredVerified
Jurisdictions searched
3 declared addresses
4 searched — includes 1 undeclared prior address
Cases found
None declared
None found
Corroboration
No name matches required corroboration
Case relevance review
N/A — no matters found
Closed

Closed clean — every jurisdiction the candidate lived in came back with no matching case, so the file never reached advocate review.

100%
Fields reconciled
Method
eCourts case-type and party-name search across every declared and previously-resident jurisdiction.
Source
eCourts index + District & Sessions Courts, all four jurisdictions
Captured
17 Aug 2026, 09:15 IST
Retention
Search log retained 7 years as adjudication evidence.
Turnaround & coverage

TAT by scenario

Turnaround time depends heavily on the level of digitisation across searched jurisdictions.

Single jurisdiction, digitized on eCourts, High Court, Supreme Court

digitised
Fastest path for a candidate with one address.
Instant to 12 hours

Multiple jurisdictions (candidate has lived in 2+ cities)

digitised
Each additional jurisdiction adds to the search.
2-5 days

Police station verification requested in addition

non-digitised
Physical confirmation, run alongside the digital search.
7-14 days

Jurisdiction with no digitised court records

non-digitised
Fully automated via API.
2-5 days
FAQ

Questions HR and risk teams actually ask

  • It doesn't get flagged. An advocate reviews every potential match and requires corroboration — father's name, date of birth or address — before it's ever surfaced. A name-only hit against a common name is discarded at this stage, not shown to the client.

  • Every address the candidate has lived at over the defined lookback period, typically seven years — not just the current city. Undeclared prior addresses that surface during the address check are added to the search.

  • The search flags it and routes to a manual court clerk visit, which extends the turnaround for that specific case — usually into the 10–15 day range instead of the standard 3–10 days.

  • No — it depends on the state and the role's risk tier. Some clients require it in addition to the eCourts search as standard policy; for most roles, the digital court search alone is sufficient.

  • Case status is pulled fresh from the court record at the time of the check, not cached from an earlier search. A matter that's been disposed or acquitted doesn't generate a flag — only pending or convicted matters relevant to the role do.

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