Bombay High Court display board: serial numbers and kept-back cases

The Bombay High Court display board shows the serial number each court is hearing. It also lists, under each court, the serial numbers that court has kept back. This guide explains both, and shows the Nyayakosh board, which adds the time each item last changed and the pace of each court.

The Nyayakosh board is open without an account: see the Bombay High Court display board. It covers the principal seat at Mumbai.

What each court shows

The court's board gives five things for every court room: the court room, the serial number being heard, the case number, the coram, and the kept-back cases.

• The case number is on every row. You can find your matter by its number without knowing its serial number.
• Serial numbers come in bands. A court can be on 906 and then on 3 a few minutes later. Each band of a hundred is a separate list, and a court moves between its lists during the day. The board does not name the lists, so follow your full serial number.

What "kept back" means

A kept-back case is one the court has passed over for now. Its serial number stays on the board under that court, and the court can call it later in the day.

The list changes through the day. A court leaves an item and that item joins its kept-back list. Later the court moves onto an item from the list and it leaves. The board does not say when a kept-back item will be called.

The Bombay board in Nyayakosh

Fig. 1 · Court rooms on the Bombay board

4 courts on the board · read 11:42 am

• On item14

  Court No. 10

  Justice XXXXXXXX

  WP/XXXXX/2026

  Since 11:36 am · 6 min

  About 5 min a matter in the last hour

  Kept back (3): 5, 9, 11

• On item906

  Court No. 3

  Justice XXXXXXXX · Justice XXXXXXXX

  APEAL/XXX/2024

  Since 11:31 am · 11 min

  About 9 min a matter in the last hour

  Kept back (2): 903, 904

• On item27

  Court No. 17A

  Justice XXXXXXXX

  BA/XXXX/2026

  Since 11:40 am · 2 min

  About 3 min a matter in the last hour

  Kept back (7): 3, 8, 12, 15, 16, 19, 21

• Last item301

  Court No. 22A

  Justice XXXXXXXX

  SA/XXX/2019

  No change since 11:11 am

Each row adds three things to the court's board:

• The time the item last changed. A row says "Since 11:36 am · 6 min". After 20 minutes without a change the row says "No change since" and the item is no longer shown as live. The court's board leaves a court's last item up after the court rises, so this tells you whether the number is current.
• Minutes per matter. Each court shows its average over the last hour, so you can judge the wait.
• The kept-back count. The row gives the number of kept-back items with the list, so you see how much the court may come back to.

The page reads the board again every 60 seconds, so you can leave it open. You can filter the board to one court.

Following your own matter

1. Find your serial number in the court's cause list for the day, on the court's website.
2. Open the board and find your court room.
3. Compare the serial number being heard with yours, in the same band.
4. Read the kept-back numbers. If yours is there, the court has passed it over and may call it.

Courts do not take the list in order, so a court on a lower serial number than yours can still reach you soon, and a court past your number can come back to it.

The rest of your day

A High Court matter is often one of several hearings in a day. Nyayakosh tracks your cases against the court record, shows each day's hearings on one screen, and alerts you when a date moves: your court day on one screen.

To bring your cases in without typing them, see how to export My Cases from the eCourts app.

Other boards

The same page reads the display boards of the High Courts of Delhi, Allahabad and Madhya Pradesh. For Delhi, a signed-in advocate also sees their own listed matters against the board: how to read the Delhi High Court display board.