The court is in one city and the state's centre of gravity is in another. That gap is the reason an advocate here needs tomorrow's list tonight.
The Chhattisgarh High Court sits at Bilaspur — not at the state capital, Raipur — and serves Chhattisgarh. It was created in 2000 when the state was formed. Lawgger carries its cause lists for any date, the live display board through court hours, and CNR case tracking with a plain-words digest.
Most Indian High Courts sit where the state's business sits. Chhattisgarh does not work that way. The High Court is at Bilaspur; the administrative and commercial weight of the state — the government departments, the head offices, a large share of the corporate and institutional clients — is at Raipur, a hundred-odd kilometres away.
The consequence is a decision that a Delhi or a Chennai advocate never has to make. Every time a matter is listed, someone in a Raipur chamber has to answer a question that has nothing to do with law: do I set out tomorrow morning, or not?
Get it wrong in one direction and you have lost a day on the road for a matter that was not reached. Get it wrong in the other and your matter is called with nobody to answer it. Neither is recoverable, and both are decided the night before, on whatever information you happen to have.
That is the whole argument for a cause list that arrives on a phone the moment it is published, and it is a Chhattisgarh-specific argument rather than a general one. A tool that lets you check the list from Raipur at nine in the evening is not a convenience here. It is the input to a travel decision.
The question the board answers while you are still deciding whether to set out.
The list gives you a position. The board gives you a pace. Through court hours — roughly 10:30 to 16:30 IST — the display board shows which item is being taken up in each court, moving as the court moves.
Being item 31 tells you very little on its own. Watching item 26 go up at half past eleven tells you a great deal. And a matter that has been passed over, or is part heard before another bench, changes your morning entirely — which is why the notation on the board is worth knowing. Pass over means it will be taken again later in the day. Part heard means a bench is already committed. Not reached means the day ended before your number came up.
Lawgger carries live boards for the Supreme Court, all 25 High Courts and the NCLT, NCLAT and CAT — 527 courts, 426 benches. The boards run in the app; this website does not show live court data. Read the display board guide for how to interpret one.
Advance, daily and supplementary lists for the Chhattisgarh High Court, searchable three ways.
The Chhattisgarh High Court, or any of the district courts in the state, for any date you ask for — tomorrow, next week, or a date three months ago that you now need to prove something about.
Party name, advocate name or case number. Nobody in a chamber recalls a case number for a matter last touched in March. Everybody remembers whose case it was and who was on the other side.
Once a matter is on your watchlist, Lawgger finds it in every list it appears in — including a supplementary item added at eleven at night — and tells you the court number and the item number.
To pull your whole day's listings under your own name rather than matter by matter, see advocate-wise cause lists. For the difference between advance, daily and supplementary lists in general, see the cause list guide.
A Chhattisgarh argument frequently rests on a decision handed down when these districts were part of Madhya Pradesh.
The state was formed in 2000 and this court with it. Everything before that came from the Madhya Pradesh High Court, and a great deal of it has never been disturbed. In land, revenue, service and local-government work particularly, the older decisions are still the ones being cited across the bar.
So a Chhattisgarh advocate needs both courts open at once. Lawgger carries them together inside 2.07 crore Indian judgments in full text — the Supreme Court and all 25 High Courts, with 1.28 crore case-to-section links and 18 lakh citation links joining them. A search returns Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh decisions in the same result set, each pin-cited to the page, so you open the judgment and read the passage in place.
And each one carries a good-law verdict. An older decision may have been overruled by a larger bench, displaced by a state amendment, or quietly left behind. Lawgger says which. See legal research and good-law checking.
The travel problem does not begin and end at Bilaspur. Many of Chhattisgarh's districts sit a long road journey from the High Court and from each other, and a practice that covers more than one of them spends a good deal of its year deciding where to be.
Lawgger covers around 700 district courts nationally, across 722 districts in 35 states and union territories, and will give you the cause list for any of them on any date. Tracking is by CNR, the number that stays with a matter wherever it goes. Every order that comes on the file is digested into plain words you can send on without editing — interim stay granted; counter due in four weeks, or adjourned on the other side's request; next date fixed.
See what a CNR number is and how case status checking works.
Hindi carries most of the day-to-day work in Chhattisgarh, in the district courts especially. Lawgger works in 10 Indian languages: ask in Hindi, read the answer in Hindi, and the judgment it is pin-cited to stays in its original language so no word is lost on the way. See how the assistant works. The current list of supported languages is shown in the app.
Lawgger holds 21 statutory limitation clocks. Give it the dates and it computes the running period, shows what remains, and rolls past weekends, gazetted holidays and court vacations so the date you are shown is a working date rather than an arithmetical one. Where an application under section 5 will be needed, that is flagged rather than assumed.
It is a computation on the dates you supply. It is not advice and it does not replace your own reading of the Limitation Act. Try the limitation calculator, and see practice management for turning those dates into tasks with owners.
The Chhattisgarh High Court sits at Bilaspur, not at the state capital Raipur. It serves the whole of Chhattisgarh from that single seat. For an advocate based at Raipur or further south, that separation is the defining practical feature of practice here: every listing carries a travel decision with it, and the decision has to be made the previous evening.
In 2000, when the State of Chhattisgarh was formed out of Madhya Pradesh. Matters arising from these districts were heard by the Madhya Pradesh High Court before that, which is why a Chhattisgarh practice still works with pre-2000 Madhya Pradesh authority alongside this court's own decisions.
Yes. Lawgger's 2.07 crore full-text judgments span the Supreme Court and all 25 High Courts without a cut-off at reorganisation dates. Pre-2000 Madhya Pradesh High Court decisions and Chhattisgarh High Court decisions come back in the same search, each pin-cited to the page and each carrying a good-law verdict.
Courts publish the list for a hearing day on the evening before, with supplementary items sometimes added later the same night. No fixed clock time can be relied on. Lawgger shows the list the moment it is published and alerts you if a matter you are watching appears, which for a Raipur-based advocate is the difference between booking travel and not.
Yes, inside the Lawgger app. The board runs live through court hours, roughly 10:30 to 16:30 IST, showing the item currently being taken up in each court. Lawgger carries live boards for the Supreme Court, all 25 High Courts and the NCLT, NCLAT and CAT. This marketing website does not show live court data; the boards are in the app.
Yes. Lawgger covers around 700 district courts nationally, across 722 districts in 35 states and union territories, and will give you the cause list for any of them on any date. Chhattisgarh's district courts are included, which matters in a state where many districts are a long road journey from Bilaspur.
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Lawgger is software for advocates. It is not a law firm and gives no legal advice. Court information is shown as published in official court records.
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