# Judgments Ecourts — Wrapped API

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> Search for Indian court judgments and orders across multiple courts to access legal rulings, case decisions, and judicial orders. Find relevant court cases by searching through a comprehensive database of Indian judicial decisions.

**Category:** Government & Public Data | **Website:** [judgments.ecourts.gov.in/](https://judgments.ecourts.gov.in/) | **Docs:** [parse.bot/marketplace/43a05043-f9cd-4605-8f18-14950d220bd6/judgments-ecourts-gov-in-api](https://parse.bot/marketplace/43a05043-f9cd-4605-8f18-14950d220bd6/judgments-ecourts-gov-in-api)

Pay-per-use API proxy for Locus Pro. Each call burns credits from your workspace balance.

## Access

**Base URL:** `https://api.beta.paywithlocus.com/api/wrapped/credits/judgments-ecourts/`
**Auth:** `Authorization: Bearer <LOCUS_CREDITS_SECRET_KEY>` (an `lcr_` secret key or a scoped `lcac_` agent credential)
**Required header:** `Idempotency-Key: <fresh UUID per call>`. A retry with the same key replays the stored result without a new charge.
**Response:** the provider response after any endpoint-specific normalization. `X-Locus-Credits-Charged` carries the charge and `X-Locus-Credits-Balance` the remaining balance. Insufficient credits return `402` before the provider is called.
**Pricing:** estimated costs below are USD. Locus debits the credit equivalent at your workspace rate.

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## Endpoints

### Search judgments

Full-text search across Indian court judgments and orders. Matches keywords against case text. Results are paginated in batches of 10, ordered by most recent judgment date. Internally solves an image captcha per request; due to OCR reliability, requests may occasionally need retrying. Each result includes case title, judge, court, CNR number, dates, and a path to the judgment PDF.

**Estimated cost:** Metered

| Field | Type | Required | Description |
|-------|------|----------|-------------|
| `court_code` | string | No | High Court state code to filter results by state (e.g. 'DEL' for Delhi, 'BOM' for Bombay) |
| `court_type` | string | No | Court type: '1' for Supreme Court, '2' for High Court, '3' for SCR |
| `query` | string | Yes | Search keyword to match against judgment text (e.g. 'CGST', 'property', 'tax') |
| `start` | integer | No | Pagination offset (results returned in batches of 10) |

```bash
curl -X POST https://api.beta.paywithlocus.com/api/wrapped/credits/judgments-ecourts/search-judgments \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $LOCUS_CREDITS_SECRET_KEY" \
  -H "Idempotency-Key: $(uuidgen)" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"court_code":"<string>","court_type":"<string>","query":"<string>","start":"<integer>"}'
```

## Next steps

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