Field guide
How to get WhatsApp alerts for your court cases
Verified against the live portal — 22 Jul 2026Track a case on CourtWatch and WhatsApp alerts are on by default for your signup number — no setup. You get a reminder the evening before and the morning of every hearing (with the item number when the case is listed), and one daily evening update when a next date, stage or disposal changes. One case, a handful of messages a month — never a flood.
Most court-tracking tools fail in one of two directions: silence, or spam. This guide is the exact contract — what arrives on WhatsApp, when, and what never will.
What arrives, and when
- Hearing reminders. The evening before a hearing (around 6:30 PM) and again the morning of (around 8 AM). When your case appears on the day's cause list, the reminder carries the item number — the number your matter answers to when called.
- Change updates. When the court record moves — a new next date, a change of stage, a disposal — the change lands in one consolidated update in the evening. Three cases moving on the same day means one message, not three.
- Nothing else. No promotions, no "have you seen", no daily noise. If your cases did not move and nothing is listed, WhatsApp stays quiet.
Setting it up
There is no setup. Alerts go to the number you signed up with, on by default, starting with your first tracked case. A free account covers alerts on two tracked cases; paid plans extend them across a full board.
The quiet first sync
When you first track a case, CourtWatch pulls its complete record — which often "changes" everything once, as the history fills in. That first sync is deliberately silent: you are not messaged about the past. Alerts begin with the first change that happens after you started tracking — the ones you actually need to hear about.
FAQ
When do the hearing reminder messages arrive?
The evening before the hearing, around 6:30 PM, and the morning of the hearing, around 8 AM. If the case is on the day's cause list, the reminder includes its item number.
Will I get an alert the moment something changes?
Changes are collected and delivered as one consolidated WhatsApp update in the evening. Hearing reminders are separate and always arrive at their fixed times.
Do WhatsApp alerts work for High Court and Supreme Court cases?
Yes. Once a case is tracked — district court, Delhi High Court or Supreme Court — reminders and change updates behave identically across all of them.
Why did I get no message when I first tracked my case?
By design. The first sync establishes the case's baseline silently so its existing history does not arrive as a flood of "changes". Alerts begin with the first real movement after that.
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