82,000 Judgments and Growing — How Artha Is Building India's Most Accessible Legal Corpus

When we started building Artha, the question we kept hearing from lawyers and CAs was the same: why does serious legal research in India still cost more than a car EMI? SCC Online and Manupatra charge ₹50,000 to ₹2,00,000 per seat per year. Most small CA firms and independent advocates simply price themselves out. They fall back on Indian Kanoon — which is free, but has no AI, no headnotes, no citation verification, and no ITAT orders.

We decided to build something different. Today, Artha's corpus has crossed 82,000 judgments — and it's growing every day.

What's in the Corpus Today

Here's exactly what Artha indexes as of May 2026:

Supreme Court of India — 52,296 judgments spanning 1950 to date. This already exceeds the e-SCR's reported judgment count of 37,300. We index both reported and unreported orders.
Income Tax Appellate Tribunal — 27,672 orders. This is Artha's strongest differentiator for CAs. No free platform indexes ITAT at this scale with AI headnotes.
Delhi High Court — 1,039 judgments and growing daily.
Allahabad High Court — 579 judgments.
Bombay High Court — 359 judgments.
Madras High Court — 51 judgments. Early stage, scaling fast.

Why ITAT Matters for CAs

The 27,672 ITAT orders are not an accident — they are the centrepiece of Artha for chartered accountants. Consider what a CA faces when advising a client on a Section 68 addition, or a transfer pricing dispute, or a bogus purchase disallowance. The controlling precedents are almost never Supreme Court judgments. They are ITAT orders — specific, fact-intensive, tribunal-level decisions that determine how assessing officers and CIT(A) will treat a case.

Before Artha, finding relevant ITAT orders meant manually searching the ITAT website (which is notoriously difficult to navigate), paying for SCC Online's tax module, or relying on memory and word of mouth. With Artha, a CA can search "Section 68 addition accommodation entries Delhi bench 2023" and get semantically relevant orders in seconds, each with an AI-generated headnote summarising the issue, the holding, and the principle.

AI Headnotes — Read Any Judgment in 30 Seconds

Every judgment in Artha's corpus is processed by our AI pipeline on ingestion. The pipeline generates a 2–3 sentence headnote that captures: (1) the legal issue, (2) the court's holding, and (3) the key principle. This means a lawyer reviewing 20 search results doesn't need to open each one — the headnote tells them immediately whether the case is relevant.

This is what SCC Online charges ₹1,50,000/year for. Artha includes it from ₹3,999/month, built into the same platform where you manage your practice, track your clients, and handle your compliance calendar.

What's Coming Next

The SC and ITAT corpus is largely complete. The High Court expansion is underway — we're prioritising Delhi, Bombay, Allahabad, Madras, and Karnataka. After that:

CESTAT — critical for indirect tax practitioners handling customs and excise disputes
AAR / AAAR — GST advance rulings, invaluable for CAs advising on transaction structuring
NCLAT / NCLT — for lawyers handling insolvency and company law matters
Consumer Forums — NCDRC and state commissions
Citation verification — automatically flag if a case has been overruled, distinguished, or affirmed

Built for Indian Professionals, Not Priced for Them to Fail

The Indian legal research market has operated on the assumption that only large firms can afford good tools. Artha is built on the opposite assumption — that a solo CA in Surat and a 40-partner firm in Mumbai both deserve the same quality of research infrastructure.

82,000 judgments is a milestone. It is not the destination. Every week, the corpus grows. Every judgment added is one more precedent that a CA or lawyer can find in seconds instead of hours.

Artha is available as part of Klaro's CA and Lawyer plans. Try it free for 30 days at klaro.services/in — no credit card required.