Corrections policy

Last updated: 10 September 2026

We will get things wrong. A page of a judgment will be missing, a citation will point at the wrong case, a bench will be listed with a judge who was not on it, a summary will say something the court did not say. This page says how to tell us, what we will do about it, and how long we will take.

How to report an error

Write to the Grievance Officer, whose contact details are on the Grievance page. Give us:

• the page -- a URL, or the case number and court;
• what is wrong;
• what it should say, if you know; and
• anything that shows it -- most usefully, the paragraph of the judgment.

You do not have to be a party to the case, a lawyer, or a registered user. We have no registration. Anonymous reports are read and acted on; we simply cannot tell you the outcome if you leave us no way to reach you.

What we will do, and by when

• Acknowledgement within 24 hours, and a decision within 15 days, matching the grievance timetable set by Rule 11(2) of the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021. Most corrections take very much less than 15 days; that is the outer limit, not the plan.
• Immediately, ahead of everything else, where the report is that a page discloses the identity of a person the law protects -- a victim under section 72 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, a child under section 23 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012, or a child under section 74 of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015. In those cases the page is withdrawn first and assessed afterwards. Do not wait for our acknowledgement; if it is urgent, telephone.

What a correction looks like

We correct in place and we say what we corrected. A corrected page carries a dated note at its foot recording what was wrong and when it was fixed. We do not edit an error out of existence and leave the page looking as though it had always been right -- an unmarked silent edit is indistinguishable, to a reader who relied on the old version, from gaslighting.

Three grades, because they are genuinely different things:

• Typographical fixes -- a broken character from text extraction, a formatting fault -- are made without a note. Nothing a reader relied on has changed.
• Corrections -- a wrong date, judge, citation, section number, party name, or any statement of fact -- carry a dated correction note on the page itself.
• Withdrawals -- where a page should not have been published at all -- leave a note at the URL saying the document was withdrawn and when. The exception is a withdrawal made to protect a person's identity, where even the note is kept bare, because a detailed explanation of what was removed can re-identify the person it was removed to protect.

Errors in the source, and errors of ours

Two different things get reported here and they have different answers.

If we have mis-transcribed, mis-parsed or mis-summarised the court's document, that is our error and we fix it. So is a wrong case number, a wrong bench, a broken citation link, an inaccurate summary, or a document filed under the wrong court.

If the court's own document contains the error, we cannot change it. Our copy is meant to be a faithful reproduction of what the court issued, and quietly "improving" a judgment would make this site useless for the only purpose it has. Where the discrepancy is real and demonstrable we will note it on the page rather than alter the text, and where the court itself later issues a corrected or amended judgment we replace our copy with the corrected version and note the replacement. The route to changing a judgment is an application to the court that made it.

If you want the page taken down rather than corrected

That is a different request with a different answer, and it is set out under "If you are named in a judgment" in our editorial policy. In short: we can correct the record, keep the page out of name searches while leaving it available at its citation, or withdraw it altogether -- and we will tell you which we did and why.

Keeping ourselves honest

Corrections received and made are counted in the monthly compliance report we publish under Rule 18(3) of the IT Rules, 2021. A correction that was reported and not made is the kind of thing that ought to be visible, so it is.

Reviewed by counsel: pending. This text was drafted in-house on 10 September 2026 and has not yet been reviewed by an advocate. It states what we actually do and we stand behind it; it has not had a professional legal review.