NDOH tracking
NDOH (Next Date of Hearing) is the future date the court gives a case after each hearing. NyayX tracks it from two directions at once: what you record yourself, and what the daily cause-list sync picks up from the court, and reconciles the two automatically.
Where NDOH appears
| Location | How it appears |
|---|---|
| Case overview | ”Next Hearing” field with the date |
| Cases list | ”Next Hearing” column, sorted soonest first by default |
NDOH Manager (/hearings) | Stat cards for Conflicts, Tentative, Overdue, No Date, On Track, and every case grouped by what it needs |
| Calendar | Hearing event on the NDOH date |
| Court Mode | Record NDOH sheet, discrepancy alerts |
| Pending Dates | Every case missing a firm date, in one queue |
How a date gets set
There are two paths, and NyayX is explicit about which one wins when they disagree.
1. You record it manually, from any of these:
- Court Mode’s Record NDOH sheet, on the web or the mobile app (including offline)
- The NDOH Manager’s inline “Set Date” on a case row, or its bulk Court Visit Mode for updating several cases you heard the same day
- A hearing’s own NDOH tab (inside the case’s Hearings tab, under that hearing’s expanded row)
Recording it manually always marks the date manual and, if it’s in the future, automatically marks today’s hearing as adjourned.
2. The cause-list sync picks it up: every evening, NyayX re-scrapes SCI, Delhi High Court, District Courts, DRT/DRAT/RC and Consumer Forum cause lists (see Cause lists) and reads off whatever next date the court’s own record shows for your matched cases.
Manual persists
The rule that decides which date wins is simple: a manual future date is never silently overwritten. If you’ve entered an NDOH yourself and it’s still in the future, the evening sync will not clobber it, even if the scraped cause list shows something different. Instead, the difference is flagged as a discrepancy for you to resolve. If you haven’t set a manual date (or the one you set has already passed), the scraped date is applied automatically, so a court adjournment (say, from the 10th to the 20th) still shows up on your dashboard without any manual entry.
Discrepancies
A discrepancy is only raised when:
- The scraped date is a genuine future date, and
- Your recorded date sits on a strictly earlier day than the scraped one, meaning the court appears to have pushed the case later than you have on file.
A same-day match, or a manual date that’s later than the scraped one, is not treated as a conflict. Courts routinely list a matter on an intermediate date before the “real” next hearing, and that shouldn’t trigger a false alarm. A discrepancy whose court date has already passed clears itself automatically overnight.
Resolving one is a single click, from Court Mode, the NDOH Manager, or a hearing’s own NDOH tab:
- Accept the court’s date: the scraped date becomes the new NDOH
- Keep my date: your manual date is retained and the alert clears
- Already rescheduled: for when you’ve already moved the date since the discrepancy was raised
Overdue hearings
If a hearing date passes without an outcome recorded, it’s marked Overdue in the NDOH Manager. Open it, record what happened, and set the new NDOH to clear the flag.
Pending Dates queue
The Pending Dates page (/pending) surfaces every active case with an uncertain or missing next date, in one place. A case lands there under one of four flags:
| Flag | Cause |
|---|---|
| Discrepancy | Your recorded NDOH differs from the court’s cause list, on the terms above |
| Tentative | The date was captured provisionally, see below |
| Stale | The nightly check flagged this case: its last hearing was two or more weeks ago and no NDOH has shown up on the cause list since. It’s not stuck, the auto-sync is just still watching for a listing, but it’s worth checking manually if it drags on |
| No date | No future hearing recorded at all |
They’re sorted in that order of urgency, and within a flag, the cases that have been stuck the longest bubble to the top.
Tentative dates
Some sources (most often the SCI live result) can surface a soft “next date” before the official record confirms it, for example a “list after N weeks” signal. NyayX stores this as tentative rather than confirmed. Confirm it once you’re sure it’s right, or change it to the correct date if the bench gave a different one.
Mediation dates are tracked separately
A mediation session is recorded as its own hearing and never becomes a case’s NDOH, even if you record it in the same save as a court date. This keeps the discrepancy logic honest: a mediation referral date isn’t a court hearing date, so it’s excluded from the “did the court move my date” comparison entirely. See Mediation hearings.
Passover
A passover happens when the court calls your case’s item number but tells you to come back later the same session:
- A passover does not assign a new date. The case is still listed for today and will be called again
- If the day ends without a real NDOH, the case surfaces in Pending Dates so you can enter it once the court gives one
In Court Mode, the Passover action records this in one tap, with an optional call-back time, and works offline on the mobile app.
Reminders
Once an NDOH is set, NyayX schedules reminders automatically at 7 days, 3 days, and 1 day before the hearing (9am IST each time). Each reminder goes out by email, WhatsApp, and push notification, and names the exact case, court, and hearing date and time. If the hearing date changes, the old reminders are cancelled and new ones are scheduled against the new date; if the hearing is marked completed or cancelled, no further reminders fire.