About
About Pundora
Pundora is a case-file assistant for advocates and small litigation chambers in India. This page says who makes it, where its judgments and law come from, how a citation is checked, and what it does not claim.
What Pundora is
An advocate uploads a case file. Pundora builds the chronology with every line linked to the page it came from, puts every deadline on a calendar for the advocate to confirm, and sends tomorrow’s hearings to WhatsApp the previous evening. It answers research questions from its own collection of judgments and checks every citation against the judgment’s text before showing it. It writes first drafts in the advocate’s own format, exports them in the Delhi High Court’s prescribed format, and checks the citations in any draft, including one written elsewhere. On a laptop it runs in the browser; on the phone it is WhatsApp.
It is free in early access, and access is by invitation from a waitlist. Everything an advocate puts in can be exported at any time, free of charge.
Who makes it
- Company
- Pundora Legaltech Private Limited, a private company incorporated in India in September 2026 (CIN U74900DL2026PTC470096), Vasant Kunj, New Delhi.
- Founder
- Abhijeet.
- How we work
- We build Pundora in New Delhi and sit with advocates there to watch it being used.
- Write to
- contact@pundora.in for the company; support@pundora.in for anything about a workspace.
- Where it runs
- Servers in India (Mumbai region). Scanned pages are read on a machine Pundora runs itself in Mumbai, never by a cloud reading service.
The judgments
Pundora holds more than 18 million judgments of every Indian High Court and of the Supreme Court, from 1950 to today, with their full text. They were loaded from the courts’ own public archives, kept word for word, and are topped up every night as the courts publish more. The Supreme Court’s judgments carry their parties, dates and Supreme Court Reports citations. Any judgment can be found by its citation, its parties, its case number, a phrase in quotation marks, or a question asked in ordinary words.
Beside the courts, Pundora holds the orders of six tribunals and regulators, each taken from the body’s own website and kept word for word: the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (2016 to today), the Appellate Tribunal for Electricity (2008 to today), the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (1999 to today), the Securities and Exchange Board of India (2000 to today) and the Securities Appellate Tribunal (1998 to 2015, as SEBI publishes them). Insolvency orders of the National Company Law Tribunal are held as the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India publishes them; that is the regulator’s copy, not the tribunal’s certified one, and the page of each order says so. On 7 October 2026 these came to 89,609 orders. An order published only as a scanned copy is held by its title, number and date with a link to the official copy, because it has no words to search. District courts and other tribunals are not held.
No citation in Pundora is written by AI. The judgment is found first, and the citation is read off its record. Where a research answer quotes a judgment, code finds every quoted word in the passage it points at, or the point is dropped. Where no authority is found, Pundora says so and stops. It never fills the gap.
The law
Pundora carries every central act on India Code, section by section and word for word, and the Constitution of India: 2,146 acts and 54,845 sections on 6 October 2026, including the acts of Delhi, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra. Alongside them are 22,727 rules, regulations, notifications, circulars and orders made under those acts, and the repealed acts, as India Code publishes them. Where India Code publishes an act or rule only as a single document, Pundora keeps it whole; an old scanned one is kept by its title, with a link to the official copy. Pundora also has the Schedule to the Limitation Act, the official tables that map the old criminal codes to the new ones, and the rules of civil procedure by Order and Rule. A section quoted in a draft is checked against these, not against memory. State legislation and regulators’ instruments come from the open-india-law dataset under its open licence, with its attribution kept on every record.
Licensed sources
A small number of judgments, and the links between judgments (which cites which), are obtained through the Indian Kanoon API under a commercial licence and kept in Pundora’s corpus with Indian Kanoon’s written permission. When Pundora looks something up there it sends only a citation, or search terms built from named legal parts. It never sends an advocate’s documents, an advocate’s own words, or a party’s name an advocate typed.
How a citation is checked
When a draft cites a judgment, Pundora looks for that citation in its own corpus first, then by the case’s parties, then in the reference sources it licenses. If the judgment is found and the draft quotes it, the quoted words are looked for in the judgment’s text; a quotation that is not there is shown beside the words that are. If the draft says what a section of an act provides, the section’s own words are cut from the act and shown beside the draft’s sentence. The report says what was searched and what was found. The full worked example is on how Pundora checks a citation.
What Pundora does not claim
- It does not say an AI cannot be wrong. AI reading is used to build a chronology, answer a question, write a draft and review one; each result is shown with its source so the advocate can check it, and the advocate confirms every date before it reaches the calendar.
- It never says a judgment does not exist. When a citation cannot be found, the report says “not confirmed” and lists what was searched. A real authority can be listed under a citation Pundora does not hold.
- It does not catch a judgment cited for the opposite of what it holds. It checks that a citation exists and that quoted words are in the text; whether the court was stating an argument in order to reject it is for the advocate to read.
- It is not certified. No ISO or SOC audit has been done yet. The security page says what is in place and what is not.
- Its AI provider’s zero-retention terms are applied for, not yet in force. Until they are, text sent to the provider is deleted within 30 days under the provider’s standard terms; the privacy policy says so and will change on the day it changes.
- WhatsApp messages are not end-to-end encrypted on the business platform. Every business on WhatsApp works through Meta’s hosting. Pundora fetches every file it receives once and sends Meta a deletion request the same minute, recording Meta’s answer.
- It is early. The product is in early access with a small number of chambers; some features named in the terms are still arriving.
Your files are not the corpus
An advocate’s matters, documents and drafts live in the chamber’s own encrypted, isolated workspace on India-region servers. They never join the shared corpus, no AI is trained on them, and only the form of a chamber’s own drafts, never the facts of one matter, is reused in another.
Questions advocates ask
Is Pundora free?
Yes, until Pundora’s payment system is live. Access is by invitation from a waitlist. From that day Pundora costs ₹1,999 per chamber per month, plus GST where it applies; nothing used before it is ever charged, and chambers are told in writing first. Exports stay free whatever happens. See pricing.
Which courts does Pundora cover?
Judgments of every Indian High Court and the Supreme Court, 1950 to today. Court-holiday calendars for the Supreme Court, most High Courts and several district judiciaries (the list, with what is missing and why). Word export follows the Delhi High Court’s format, which binds the Delhi district courts too.
Are the citations reliable?
Every citation shown is read off a judgment Pundora holds or a licensed source confirms, and every quotation is found in the judgment’s text word for word or is not shown. Pundora does not promise that an AI reading is never wrong; it shows the source so the advocate can check.
Where is my data stored?
On servers in India (Mumbai region), in a workspace isolated from every other chamber’s by controls enforced in the database itself. The privacy policy names everything that leaves India and why.
Who is behind Pundora?
Pundora Legaltech Private Limited, New Delhi, incorporated in September 2026 and founded by Abhijeet. Write to us at contact@pundora.in.
Sources
- The same facts as the app states them on its own About page
- Privacy policy (what is collected, where it lives, who can touch it)
- India Code, the Government of India’s repository of central acts (the source of the bare acts)
- India Code’s open catalogue (every central act, the four States’ acts, rules and notifications; counted in Pundora’s database on 6 October 2026) (read 4 October 2026)
- National Company Law Appellate Tribunal: judgments (the source of its orders) (read 4 October 2026)
- Appellate Tribunal for Electricity: judgments (read 4 October 2026)
- Central Electricity Regulatory Commission: orders (read 4 October 2026)
- Securities and Exchange Board of India: orders (with the Securities Appellate Tribunal’s orders to 2015) (read 4 October 2026)
- Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India: orders of the National Company Law Tribunal (the regulator’s copies) (read 5 October 2026)
- open-india-law (State legislation and regulators’ instruments, CC BY 4.0) (read 3 October 2026)