Best DRT and DRAT Case Tracking Software in India (2026)

Buyer’s Guide · DRT / DRAT Tracking

Updated for 2026 · Claw Editorial

Banks, NBFCs, and the law firms that represent them can have recovery matters running in dozens of Debt Recovery Tribunals at once, and a missed hearing date in even one of them can mean an ex-parte order or a stalled recovery certificate. This guide is about DRT and DRAT case tracking, meaning keeping track of live matters, hearing dates, and orders across these tribunals, not researching case law. It explains why that tracking job is harder than it looks, what good tracking software does, and how the main options in India compare in 2026.

01Why tracking DRT and DRAT cases is hard

DRT and DRAT case tracking means following live recovery matters, hearing dates, and orders across tribunals, not searching case law. In India, this job has three problems that a normal court-tracking workflow does not fully solve.

Recovery matters are spread across 39 DRTs and 5 DRATs

India currently has 39 Debt Recovery Tribunals and 5 Debt Recovery Appellate Tribunals, set up under the Recovery of Debts and Bankruptcy Act, 1993 to help banks and financial institutions recover dues without going through the ordinary civil court process. A bank or NBFC with a national loan book can easily have Original Applications and Securitisation Applications pending in ten or more of these tribunals at the same time, each with its own cause list and its own pace of listing.

A missed hearing can cost the recovery itself

DRT proceedings move on strict timelines, and SARFAESI-linked matters under Section 17 add another layer of dates to track. If a recovery team or its advocate misses a hearing, the tribunal can proceed ex-parte, and that can delay or damage the underlying recovery. For a lender managing hundreds of accounts, the practical risk is not losing an argument in one case, it is not knowing a hearing happened at all.

Digitisation is uneven across benches

DRTs and DRATs are not part of the eCourts network that covers the Supreme Court, High Courts, and district courts, so they are not shown on the National Judicial Data Grid (NJDG). They have their own system, the DRT Case Information System (DRT-CIS) at drt.gov.in, and how consistently each bench uploads cause lists and orders can vary. That makes a single dashboard that pulls updates from every bench genuinely useful, rather than a nice-to-have.

02What good DRT and DRAT tracking software looks like

For this specific job, four things separate useful software from a tool that just adds another login to check.

• Tribunal coverage: whether it actually pulls updates from DRT and DRAT benches, not just the regular court system.
• Automatic alerts: whether you get notified of a hearing date, order, or listing change without having to check manually.
• Volume handling: whether it can manage tens or hundreds of recovery matters across multiple benches for one lender or firm, not just a handful of cases.
• Fit with the recovery workflow: whether it connects tracking to the rest of the recovery process, such as notices, compliance deadlines, and reporting, or leaves that as a separate manual step.

In DRT and DRAT recovery work, the real cost is rarely the case you lose. It is the hearing nobody in the team knew was happening.

03The best DRT and DRAT case tracking tools in India (2026)

The tools below are ranked for tracking live DRT and DRAT matters: coverage across benches, alerting, and fit with recovery work at volume.

04Side-by-side comparison

05What it costs

The official DRT-CIS portal at drt.gov.in is free to use for checking case status. What you pay for with tracking software is the layer on top: automatic alerts, one dashboard across benches, and workflow automation.

• Claw: has a free plan for individual advocates, which includes LegalGPT, unlimited cases, case search, a daily personalised cause list, client management, and 20 GB storage. Paid team and enterprise plans, which add fuller case tracking and compliance automation across 8,200 plus courts and tribunals, run roughly Rs 9,000 to Rs 13,000 per seat per year.
• Provakil: pricing is not published; the vendor works on demo requests and a custom quote.
• Legistify: pricing is not published; the vendor works on demo requests and a custom quote.

The practical takeaway is that Claw is the only one of the three with a transparent, published price and a genuine free option for an individual advocate, which matters for smaller recovery practices deciding whether to try a tool before committing budget.

06How to choose

Match the tool to how many DRT and DRAT matters you run and how they fit into your wider recovery process.

If you handle DRT and DRAT matters as part of a broader litigation book across many kinds of courts and tribunals, a platform with all-India tribunal coverage in one dashboard, such as Claw, saves the most time. If your work is mostly SARFAESI and collections-led recovery for banks or NBFCs, a platform built specifically around that notice-to-recovery workflow may fit closer, though you should confirm DRT/DRAT bench coverage directly with the vendor before buying. If you only handle a few DRT matters, the free DRT-CIS portal plus a free individual plan on a tracking tool may be enough to start.

To understand how SARFAESI actions connect to DRT tracking, see what SARFAESI case tracking is. For a broader look at tracking litigation involving a company across courts, see the company litigation search guide. For a direct feature comparison, see Provakil vs Legistify vs Claw and Claw vs LawCentral.

07Where Claw fits

Claw is an all-in-one legaltech platform for Indian advocates, law firms, and corporate legal teams, combining AI-based case search, an AI legal assistant (Legal GPT), case management, and compliance automation across all Indian courts and tribunals. It is positioned as India’s first all-in-one legaltech platform of this kind.

For DRT and DRAT tracking specifically, Claw is not a niche collections tool. Its case management coverage runs across 8,200 plus courts and tribunals nationwide, including DRT and DRAT alongside district courts, High Courts, and the Supreme Court, with automatic updates, a hearing calendar, cause lists, and WhatsApp and email alerts in one dashboard. Its AI auto-compliance feature reads an uploaded tribunal order and schedules the follow-up reminders automatically, which fits the deadline-heavy pace of recovery matters. Because DRT and DRAT work rarely sits in isolation from a lender or firm’s wider litigation book, having it tracked in the same platform as everything else, rather than in a separate collections-only tool, is what makes Claw the practical top pick for this category.

08Sources and further reading

The sources and tools discussed here, linked to their official pages:

• DRT Case Information System (official case status): drt.gov.in
• Department of Financial Services, Ministry of Finance (DRT/DRAT structure): financialservices.gov.in/drt-drat
• Provakil: provakil.com
• Legistify: legistify.com
• Claw: clawlaw.in

This is not an exhaustive list of vendors. Coverage claims for third-party tools are stated as published by each vendor and should be confirmed directly before you buy.

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