About RawLaw — Raw Law

RawLaw reports what Indian courts actually decide. We read judgments from the Supreme Court and the High Courts as they are delivered and publish a plain-language account of each one, alongside the order itself.

The archive now runs to more than 4,500 reports, added to every working day.

What we publish

Every report follows the same shape, because that is the order in which a lawyer needs the information:

Facts — who the parties were, which court and which order is under challenge.
Issues — the questions the court set itself to answer.
Analysis of the law — the statutes and precedent the court construed, and the reasoning it gave.
Conclusion — what the court held, and what it directed.

Each report links the judgment or order it describes, so you never have to take our summary on trust. Where our account and the court’s record differ, the record governs.

We do not publish anonymous tips, unverified claims about pending matters, or commentary on the character of judges, litigants or counsel.

Who writes it

RawLaw’s reporting is produced by an in-house editorial team working from the primary record. Siddharth Jha, Founder at RawLaw, is responsible for what appears on the site, including corrections.

How judgments are chosen, how a report is drafted and reviewed before publication, what role software plays in that process, and how to get an error fixed are all set out in our Editorial Policy.

Finding a lawyer

Reading what a court held is often only the first step. RawLaw also operates a separate platform at app.rawlaw.in where a person with a legal problem can describe it privately, choose the language and jurisdiction they need, and be put in touch with advocates who take that kind of work.

Two things about how that works are worth stating plainly:

We do not rank, rate, score or recommend advocates, and we do not publish comparative claims about them. Advocates in India are bound by Rule 36 of the Bar Council of India Rules, and a directory that ranked them would put them in breach of it.
Your description of your matter is not published. It goes to advocates who can act on it, and nowhere else.

The editorial side of RawLaw and the marketplace are run by the same organisation but kept apart in practice: no advocate can pay to be written about, and no report is written, altered or withheld to suit a commercial relationship.

This is not legal advice

Nothing on rawlaw.in is legal advice, and reading it creates no lawyer–client relationship. A judgment turns on the facts before that court; your facts are different. Reports may also be superseded — a decision can be stayed, appealed, distinguished or overruled after we publish, and a report is accurate as at its stated date, not for all time.

If something here matters to a decision you are making, speak to an advocate about your own circumstances.

Who we are, and how to reach us

RawLaw is published by Siddharth Jha, based in Mumbai, India, and has been reporting Indian judgments since 2024.

Editorial, corrections and takedowns — rawlaw.in/contact, or write to the editor
Privacy and data requests — privacy@rawlaw.in
Grievance Officer (IT Act, 2000 and the Intermediary Guidelines Rules, 2021) — Siddharth Jha, grievance@rawlaw.in