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How to Find Companies Under Insolvency in India (2026)

Updated for 2026 · Claw Editorial

If you want to find companies under insolvency in India, rather than check one company you already have in mind, the main source is the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI). The IBBI publishes public announcements of every Corporate Insolvency Resolution Process and liquidation at ibbi.gov.in, and you can sort them by type to see the companies whose process has started, with the date and the professional in charge. The NCLT orders and cause lists and the MCA records fill in the rest. This guide explains where the list lives, what each source shows, and why any list is only as current as its last update. Last verified October 2026.

01The short answer

There is no single government "list of insolvent companies", but there is a public record that comes close. When a company goes into insolvency under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (IBC), the resolution professional or liquidator must make a public announcement, and the IBBI publishes it. To find companies under insolvency:

• Start with the IBBI public announcements of CIRP and liquidation, which name each company and its commencement date.
• Use the NCLT orders and cause lists to see admission orders and the bench involved.
• Use MCA records to confirm the exact company and its registered status.

To check a single named company instead, see how to check a company's insolvency exposure.

02The IBBI public announcements

The IBBI is the regulator for insolvency in India, and its website carries the central feed of public announcements. When a Corporate Insolvency Resolution Process starts, the resolution professional issues a public announcement in Form A under Regulation 6 of the IBBI (Insolvency Resolution Process for Corporate Persons) Regulations, 2016. A similar announcement is made when a company goes into liquidation.

On the IBBI public announcements section you can sort by type, so you can see CIRP announcements and liquidation announcements separately. Each entry typically shows:

• the name of the company;
• the date of commencement or of the announcement;
• the last date for creditors to submit claims; and
• the resolution professional or liquidator handling the matter.

This is the best starting point because it is the one place that gathers insolvencies across all NCLT benches.

03NCLT orders and cause lists

The NCLT is the adjudicating authority that admits insolvency cases and passes the orders along the way. Its website at nclt.gov.in carries orders and cause lists bench by bench. For finding companies under insolvency, the NCLT is useful to:

• confirm the admission order that started a CIRP you found on the IBBI;
• see which bench is hearing the matter and when it is next listed; and
• pick up recent admissions that may not yet appear in every IBBI list.

The NCLT is organised by bench, so a search is easier when you already have a company name or case number. For step-by-step help, see how to search NCLT cases online and how to track an NCLT or NCLAT case status.

04MCA records as a cross-check

The Ministry of Corporate Affairs keeps the master data for every registered company. It will not give you a ready list of insolvent companies, but it is the right place to:

• confirm the exact legal name and CIN of a company you found elsewhere, so you are sure of the identity;
• check the company's registered status, which can read as under liquidation in some cases; and
• pull basic particulars such as directors and registered office.

Use MCA to pin down identity. Companies change names and have similar names, and a wrong identity makes every later step unreliable.

05What the list does not show

A list of companies under insolvency is only as good as its coverage and its date. Keep these limits in mind:

• Only admitted and announced matters appear. A petition that is filed but not yet admitted has no public announcement, so the company will not be on the CIRP list yet.
• The record is point-in-time. A company appears once its announcement is recorded, and a recent admission may lag.
• Status changes. A company shown in CIRP may since have had a plan approved or moved to liquidation, which a static list will not reflect.
• Name mistakes. Similar or former names can hide a company or produce a false match.

A list of insolvent companies is a snapshot. The useful question is not "who is on the list" but "who is on the list today, and has anything changed since I last looked".

06Narrowing to what matters to you

For most people the goal is not the whole universe of insolvencies, but the few that touch them, a borrower, a supplier, a customer or a group. A practical approach:

• Keep a watchlist of the companies you care about, by exact name and CIN.
• Check both CIRP and liquidation announcements, since a company can be in either.
• Look at connected parties too, such as group companies and guarantors; for individuals see personal guarantor insolvency.
• Refresh regularly, because the point of a watchlist is to catch a new filing early.

This turns a one-off search into ongoing monitoring, which is what actually protects you.

07Where Claw fits

Claw is an all-in-one legaltech platform for Indian advocates, law firms, and corporate legal teams, combining AI-based case search, an AI legal assistant (Legal GPT), case management, and compliance automation across all Indian courts and tribunals.

Finding companies under insolvency by hand means refreshing the IBBI announcements, the NCLT and MCA again and again, and a single look goes stale fast. Claw and ClawScore let you find and track a company's insolvency, its NCLT and NCLAT filings and IBBI announcements, alongside its wider litigation across 9,102 courts, benches and forums, with results in under 5 seconds. You can keep a watchlist of the companies and groups you care about and let constant monitoring flag what is New, Changed or Closed, with an alert when a new CIRP or liquidation is recorded, so you are not refreshing portals yourself. You can also search 30 crore+ judgments, with Supreme Court decisions from 1950 and High Court decisions from 1990. A clean result means only that nothing is on record on the forums and date searched, and this is information, not legal advice. Claw does not use your case documents to train its AI models.

Create a FREE Claw account to watch the companies and groups you care about for new insolvency filings, and use case search across Indian courts to see their wider litigation.

08Sources and further reading

• Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (public announcements of CIRP and liquidation): ibbi.gov.in
• National Company Law Tribunal (orders and cause lists): nclt.gov.in
• Ministry of Corporate Affairs (company master data): mca.gov.in
• India Code (Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016): indiacode.nic.in
• Claw: clawlaw.in

This guide is general information, not legal advice. Portals and regulations change, so confirm the current record before you act.

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