Draft to the structure Indian courts expect.
Cause title, prayer, verification, and paragraph numbering laid out the way the registry reads them, with 50+ further drafting conventions checked as you write. Your research sits beside the draft, and the export carries your own margins and spacing.
IN THE COURT OF THE CHIEF JUDICIAL MAGISTRATE, GORAKHPUR Complaint Case No. ____ of 2026
That the complainant is the payee of a cheque bearing no. 004512 dated 02.03.2026 drawn by the accused for a sum of ₹8,40,000.
That the said cheque was returned unpaid by the drawee bank with the endorsement ‘funds insufficient’ on 06.03.2026.
That the Accused was served with the statutory demand notice dated 12.03.2026 by registered post.
ConventionForms of address — prefer “the Accused” over “Accused” alone in this paragraph.
Every petition starts from an old brief. You copy the one that worked, change the parties, and hope you caught every place the old matter is still named.
Cause title, prayer, verification, paragraph numbering
The parts a registry looks at first — cause title, prayer, verification — follow the form for that court, and paragraph numbering renumbers itself when you insert or reorder. Draft in the same thread as your research and the parties and facts already there carry into the draft.
IN THE COURT OF THE CHIEF JUDICIAL MAGISTRATE, GORAKHPUR Complaint Case No. ____ of 2026
That the complainant is the payee of a cheque bearing no. 004512 dated 02.03.2026 drawn by the accused for a sum of ₹8,40,000.
That the said cheque was returned unpaid by the drawee bank with the endorsement ‘funds insufficient’ on 06.03.2026.
Verification
Verified at Gorakhpur on this ____ day of April, 2026, that the contents of paragraphs 1 to 3 are true to my knowledge.
50+ drafting conventions, encoded and checked
Forms of address, tense in the prayer, annexure lettering and cross-references, affidavit wording, date formats, statutory citation style. Conventions are checked as you write. When something departs from one, DocBare flags it where it happens — and if you have departed deliberately, you dismiss it.
IN THE COURT OF THE CHIEF JUDICIAL MAGISTRATE, GORAKHPUR Complaint Case No. ____ of 2026
That the complainant is the payee of a cheque bearing no. 004512 dated 02.03.2026 drawn by the accused for a sum of ₹8,40,000.
That the said cheque was returned unpaid by the drawee bank with the endorsement ‘funds insufficient’ on 06.03.2026.
That the Accused was served with the statutory demand notice dated 12.03.2026 by registered post.
ConventionForms of address — prefer “the Accused” over “Accused” alone in this paragraph.
DismissOne workspace, not two windows
Open the judgment inside PleadSmart, copy the paragraph you need, and paste it into your draft — without leaving for a second window or a separate tool.
IN THE COURT OF THE CHIEF JUDICIAL MAGISTRATE, GORAKHPUR Complaint Case No. ____ of 2026
That the complainant is the payee of a cheque bearing no. 004512 dated 02.03.2026 drawn by the accused for a sum of ₹8,40,000.
That the said cheque was returned unpaid by the drawee bank with the endorsement ‘funds insufficient’ on 06.03.2026.
That the statutory demand notice dated 12.03.2026 was despatched by registered post to the correct address of the accused and was returned with the endorsement ‘unclaimed’. Service is therefore complete in law.
Verification
Verified at Gorakhpur on this ____ day of April, 2026, that the contents of paragraphs 1 to 3 are true to my knowledge.
Formatting templates, applied on export
Margins, line spacing, font, paper size and numbering position, saved as a template and applied when you export. Keep your own, start from a built-in court preset, or — on Enterprise — use the templates your firm’s administrators set for everyone.
Your templates
- My standard
- Writ — tight
Firm templates
- Firm house style
- Firm — annexures
Court presets
- Supreme Court
- Delhi High Court
- Court Draft — Litigation
What the drafting rules are built on.
Court rules and practice directions — each convention is traced to the rule, practice direction, or registry circular it comes from, and the source is shown next to the rule.
Filings that were accepted — where a court publishes no rule but the registry has a settled preference, the convention is drawn from filings that went through, not from inference.
Reviewed by practising advocates — rules for a court are reviewed by advocates who file in it before they ship, and a rule that draws objections is scoped to the court rather than generalised.
Citations resolved, not generated — every citation in a draft resolves to a judgment in the index. A citation that cannot be resolved is flagged in the document rather than left in the text.
What it does not do.
These are the limits as they stand today. If one of them is a problem for the way you file, it is better to know before the evaluation than during it.
It does not decide your case strategy
Which grounds to press, what to concede, and how to frame the relief are yours. DocBare structures the argument you give it; it does not choose the argument.
It does not guarantee the registry accepts the filing
Conventions reduce objections; they do not remove the counter clerk. Local practice changes without notice, and a preset can be out of date before we hear about it.
It does not cover every court equally
Coverage is deepest in the Supreme Court and the High Courts with published rules. District courts, tribunals, and specialised fora vary — the coverage list is available before you sign, per court and per document type.
It does not file for you
There is no e-filing integration. DocBare produces the document; submission, court fees, and the filing counter remain your process.
It does not read every scanned document reliably
Clean PDFs extract well. Faint photocopies, handwritten endorsements, and scanned annexures do not, and where extraction is uncertain the text is marked rather than silently used.
It does not remove the need to read the draft
The document goes out over your signature. Every draft needs the same reading you would give a junior's — that is the standard the tool is built around, not a disclaimer against it.