Court Mode
Court Mode is a focused screen built to be used while you are physically in court. It shows every case you have listed for today, across every court you have matters in, and lets you record the next date or a passover in a couple of taps.
Court Mode is available in two places:
- Web:
/courtin the browser dashboard. Needs a live connection (it streams a live feed of court activity). - Mobile app: the Court Mode tab in the NyayX app. Built for the courtroom: it caches the day’s board when you open the app and keeps working even if you lose signal inside the building.
Both surfaces cover the same court types:
| Chip color | Court type |
|---|---|
| Purple | District Court: shows the physical room number (e.g. Room 28) |
| Indigo | Delhi High Court |
| Orange | Tribunal (DRT/DRAT/RC) |
| Teal | Consumer Forum (NCDRC/SCDRC/DCDRC) |
For District Court cases the badge shows the physical Room number. When the registry hasn’t published a room assignment yet, the eCourts court number is shown instead (e.g. Court 797). Tribunal and Consumer Forum matters have no live display board, so their cards just say “No live display board, listed today.”
Status indicators
| Status | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Calling now | The court is currently calling this item (SCI live feed) |
| Waiting | Your item hasn’t been called yet; items ahead is shown |
| Already called | Your item has been called and passed |
| Heard today / Disposed | The case has been heard or disposed for the day |
| Not listed / Not in board today | Your case wasn’t found in today’s board |
| Court not in session / offline | The court hasn’t opened, is in recess, or the live feed is down |
| Listed today | Shown for Tribunal and Consumer Forum cases (no live board to poll) |
SCI live position (Supreme Court only)
For Supreme Court matters, Court Mode reads the live SCI board and shows:
- Items ahead: how many items are in front of yours in the run list
- Estimated wait: rough minutes remaining, based on the average call rate
- Run-list / sequence strip: item numbers in order, with already-called items greyed out
When the court calls an item, the strip updates without a refresh (web) or on the next poll (mobile, see offline behavior below). The card for your item highlights when it transitions to Calling now.
PASS OVER chip (live signal)
When the live feed shows a case has been called and skipped to be heard later in the day, an orange PASS OVER chip appears on the card automatically. This is a read-only signal from the court’s own board, and it clears once the court calls the case again. It’s separate from the Passover button described below, which is something you record.
Recording an outcome
Each case card has two actions: Record NDOH and Passover. Once you use either one for a case, the buttons disappear from that card for the rest of the day and a small confirmation chip takes their place.
Record NDOH
A sheet slides in with two tabs, NDOH and Passover. NDOH is selected by default.
Use the quick chips (+1 week, +2 weeks, +30 days) or pick a date from the calendar. Courts don’t sit on Sunday, so a Sunday pick (from a chip or the calendar) automatically rolls forward to Monday. Past dates can’t be selected.
As soon as a date is picked, NyayX checks it against every other hearing already on your calendar for that day (see cross-court conflicts below) and shows what it finds. Time is optional. Tap Save.
Tap + Also record mediation date to expand an extra section: Mediation date (required to save this part), Mediation centre, and Mediator name (both optional). Conflict indicators are shown for the mediation date too.
Saving creates a new hearing entry for the NDOH date and automatically marks today’s hearing as Adjourned: you don’t need a separate adjournment step. A mediation date, if entered, is saved as its own hearing so it shows up on the calendar and in Court Mode on its own day.
Passover
If the court calls your case but tells you to come back later the same day (no next date, just “call again”):
Optionally enter a call-back time. Tap Save Passover.
This records a passover outcome against today, with the call-back time if you gave one. No new hearing date is created. The case is still listed for today, and you’ll add the real NDOH later once the court gives one (it’ll show up in Pending Dates until then).
Cross-court conflicts
When you pick a date in the Record NDOH sheet, NyayX cross-checks it against your whole calendar, not just this case, and flags it as:
- Cross-court conflict (red): you already have a hearing in a different court, or a different District Court complex, on that date. Up to 5 are listed with case number and time; more are summarized as “+N more”.
- Same-court, usually fine (amber): another hearing in the same court complex that day. Multiple listings in one court on one day are normal, so this is just a heads-up.
- No conflicts: nothing else is on that date.
A day with any hearing on it shows small colored dots on the calendar (one per court, up to 3 visible); a day where you’ve marked yourself active in that court gets a green ring.
Discrepancy alerts
This is a separate, server-side check from the conflict calendar above. If the NDOH you have on file for a case differs from what the day’s scraped cause list shows, and the cause-list date is in the future, a yellow Discrepancy alert appears on the card with both dates. Resolve it by accepting the court’s date or keeping your own; once resolved, the alert clears. A discrepancy against a date that has already passed clears automatically. See NDOH tracking for the full reconciliation rule.
Works offline (mobile)
The mobile app is built to keep working with no signal inside a courtroom.
What’s cached when you open the app:
- Today’s board (the case list and each case’s live status)
- The conflict calendar used by the NDOH date picker
- Cause-list rows for today
- Case details and order PDFs for today’s cases (best-effort, capped to keep the download small)
This cache refreshes automatically whenever you have a connection and is kept for the day; stale data older than a week is cleared out. If you open Court Mode with no signal at all, it loads the last-synced board read-only with an “Offline” banner noting you’re seeing the last synced version, and the live feed/polling simply pauses rather than spinning and burning battery.
Recording NDOH or Passover offline: both save locally on the phone straight away, so the case card updates immediately, and are queued to sync once you’re back online. The app checks connectivity with a real reachability probe (not just whether the wifi icon is on), so it won’t try to sync against a dead captive-portal connection. Queued items retry automatically in the background. If an item permanently fails to sync (for example, the case was deleted from the other end), you’ll see a banner listing how many items failed, with a per-item Retry button.
Passover works fully offline the same way: recorded locally, queued, and synced when you’re back on signal.
Opening the full case
Each card has an Open case → link that takes you to the full case detail page without losing your place in Court Mode.