Legal deadline calculator
Indian cases are routinely lost on a date rather than on the merits. A cheque bounce complaint filed one day early fails exactly as completely as one filed a month late. A caveat stops protecting you after ninety days, and nothing tells you when.
Choose your situation, enter the one date you know, and this works out every deadline that follows from it — with the provision each one comes from, so you can check it.
What this covers
18 situations across civil litigation, criminal procedure, consumer disputes, employment, property, intellectual property and government applications.
- · Cheque bounce (Section 138)
- · Filing a written statement
- · Caveat validity
- · Consumer complaint
- · Consumer appeal
- · First appeal from a decree
- · Review of a judgment
- · Setting aside an ex-parte decree
- · Executing a decree
- · Recovering money lent
- · Suit for breach of contract
- · POSH complaint
- · Default bail
- · Contempt proceedings
- · RTI application and appeals
- · Trademark opposition
- · Payment of gratuity
- · Recovering possession of property
How to use these dates
- Treat them as a prompt, not an answer. These are the ordinary statutory periods. Whether a particular period applies to your matter, and whether anything extends or excludes part of it, depends on facts this page cannot see.
- Time spent obtaining a certified copy is usually excluded when computing an appeal period, under Section 12 of the Limitation Act, 1963. Apply for the copy immediately and keep the receipt.
- Delay can often be condoned under Section 5 of the Limitation Act — but condonation is discretionary, has to be applied for, and has to be explained. Some periods, notably the one hundred and twenty day limit for a written statement in a commercial dispute, cannot be extended at all.
- Act well before the date shown. Filing on the last permissible day leaves no room for a registry objection, a missing document, or a court holiday.
This calculator is provided for general information. Legal Drive is not a law firm and does not provide legal advice. Limitation is a technical subject in which small factual differences change the answer, and the consequence of getting it wrong is usually that the remedy is lost entirely. Where a deadline matters, confirm it with an advocate.