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MCA has made View Public Documents unavailable from 10 am to 6 pm IST until 31 January 2027. What the error means, what still works, and what to do if you have paid.
Read more →An MCA eForm PDF can hold a document outside its visible pages. Learn how to find embedded attachments, open them and read filled XFA forms.
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India has no register of what a company owns. Here is what its filings do show about its property, where the detail is startling, and where ownership actually lives.
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A used machine or truck can already be pledged to a bank. You take it subject to that claim, and the law treats you as knowing. What to check, and what to demand.
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You do the work now and get paid later, which makes you an unsecured lender. What the register shows about a client, and why the first register to check is your own.
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Before you resign, spend ten minutes on the public record. The entity on your offer letter, its filings, and the EPFO check most candidates never do.
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A deposit is an unsecured loan you make to a stranger. Match the bank account to the contracting entity, then check paid-up capital, charges and RERA before the money leaves.
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Before you write it off or escalate, the register answers one question: are they in trouble, or just squeezing you? Here is how to read the filings for it.
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A new customer wants 30 days. Before you agree, size the line against paid-up capital and charges, then buy the accounts if the exposure would hurt.
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LLPs file different forms, disclose less, and mostly aren't audited. What LLP master data shows, what Form 8 and Form 11 contain, and where the gaps are.
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Download MCA public documents from the V3 portal: fees, steps after payment, access windows and how to open .OCT files and PDFs.
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The register uses 23 status values, not five. Here is every one, the section of law behind it, and the ACTIVE-compliance tag that is not a status at all.
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An ROC search report is a professional's signed reading of a company's registry file. Here is the checklist it should cover, and where the ₹100 documents end and the fee begins.
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Find a company's index of charges on MCA, read open and satisfied entries, and learn why the charge amount is not the outstanding loan balance.
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How to find a director's DIN on MCA, free, and what the DIN search actually returns: a lifetime identity key, not a licence, and not a list of the person's companies.
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Shareholding in an Indian private company is public, once a year, in an attachment to the annual return. Here is where to find it and the three things it will not tell you.
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Strike Off means the company has been removed from the MCA register and no longer legally exists. What Active, Strike Off and Dormant mean, and what to do next.
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Verify an Indian company for free. A quarter of the entities on the register no longer legally exist, so here is how to check the one in front of you in about two minutes.
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Find a private Indian company's revenue in its filed financial statements. Learn how to download the balance sheet and read revenue from operations.
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A Corporate Identity Number isn't a random string. Each block of it tells you something real about a company, before you open a single filing.
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