Data Masking Request

Casebench publishes judgments of the High Courts and the Supreme Court to subscribers who are signed in. These pages are not open to the public and are not indexed by search engines — a judgment on Casebench will not surface when someone searches your name on the web.

Publishing the judgment of a High Court or the Supreme Court is expressly permitted by law, even where it names a person. So we do not remove judgments, and we do not mask names simply on request. The narrow situations where we do act are below.

We will act if

A court or a government authority has directed it.

The court itself withheld the name — it wrote “XYZ”, “the victim” or “the prosecutrix” — and our copy carries the real one.

The judgment identifies a child, or a victim in a POCSO or juvenile justice matter.

We will not, without a court order

You were acquitted, discharged, or the case was quashed.

The judgment is inconvenient, embarrassing or bad for business.

You believe the judgment is wrong — that is an appeal, not a masking request.

You are the advocate, named for appearing in the matter.

Why are you asking? *

* Required

This decides how fast we must act, so please pick the closest.

A court or a government authority has directed it

Attach the order below. We act within the period the order gives.

The court did not name me, but Casebench does

The judgment identifies a child, or a victim in a POCSO or juvenile matter

Something else about my situation

We rarely grant these without a court order, but tell us and we will look.

How can we find the judgment? *

Pick whichever you have. We check it against our records before the request is filed.

Casebench web address

Citation

Case number

Casebench web address

Copy the whole address from your browser. It tells us the court, so we do not ask for it separately.

Date of judgment

As printed on the judgment.

The name as it appears in it

Copy it exactly as the judgment has written it, including any initials.

You are

Your name

Phone

We send a confirmation link to the email address before the request is filed. We use the phone only if we cannot reach you by email.

Tell us the circumstances

What I have told you is true, and I am the person named or authorised to act for them. *

We email a link to confirm your address. The request is filed, and gets its reference, once you open it and confirm.

What you tell us here is not published, not shown to other users, not attached to the judgment, and not indexed. We cannot change the court’s own judgment or its records, or remove it from the court’s website, other legal databases, or search engines. Prefer to write? Email redaction@lexologic.com, or use the postal address for the Grievance Officer given in our Grievance Redressal Policy.