# Search Indian companies by name or CIN > Check a company’s name, status, incorporation date and registered state for free. For financial statements and other filed documents, order its MCA filings. - Canonical page: https://entiva.in/ Search the free register by company name or CIN: https://entiva.in/. The search results identify the company by name, CIN, status and registered state; the company record also carries its incorporation date. Financial statements and other filings require an order. ## Annual filing dates Find a company and see dates for its annual accounts and returns. Free with an account; extensions are not included. [Check filing dates](https://entiva.in/annual-filing-dates/). ## Useful guides - [How to download MCA documents](https://entiva.in/blog/how-to-download-mca-documents/): Use the MCA portal yourself and understand its fees and access window. - [Find a private company’s revenue](https://entiva.in/blog/how-to-find-a-private-company-revenue-india/): Learn which financial statement to look for and why it may be out of date. - [Read the index of charges](https://entiva.in/blog/what-a-charge-on-a-company-means/): See what a registered charge can tell you about borrowing. ## What you can ask ### What does this company actually earn? Revenue and profit come from the audited financial statements attached to the annual filing. You get the statement as filed, not a number someone retyped. Source: Annual Returns and Balance Sheet eForms (paid retrieval) ### Who actually runs it? Current directors, and every appointment and resignation with its date, so you can see who was on the board when a decision was taken. Source: Change in Directors/Designated Partner (paid retrieval) ### Is this company even real, and still alive? Legal name, CIN, incorporation date and current status. A company showing Strike Off no longer legally exists, whatever its website says. Source: MCA company master data (free, no account) ### Has it pledged its assets to a lender? Charges created, modified and satisfied. An unreleased charge from years ago is the expensive surprise in a property or asset deal. Source: Charge Documents (paid retrieval) ### Who owns it, and how is the capital split? Shareholding and capital structure from the annual return, plus what the company was incorporated with. Source: Annual Returns; Incorporation Documents (paid retrieval) ### Is it filing on time, or quietly in default? The presence or absence of annual filings, by year. A three-year gap is a finding in itself, and we tell you it is a gap rather than an error. Source: Annual Returns and Balance Sheet eForms (paid retrieval) ## Company record - **Confirm you have the right company** Search 3.7 million companies and LLPs by name or CIN. See its status, incorporation date and registered state without an account. - **Read its company record** See the registered office, capital, last annual general meeting and balance sheet date recorded by MCA. - **Check its directors and charges** See directors and signatories, their roles and appointment dates, and the charges registered over the company’s assets. ## Your filing set - **Get the documents behind the record** Receive all eight document categories from MCA as readable PDFs, checked file by file. - **See what was filed, year by year** A year-by-year view of annual returns and financial statements shows what is in your set and where a year is missing. - **Ask questions about the filings** Each answer points to the source document and says when the documents do not contain the answer. ## Ask ChatGPT or Claude about the companies you hold Connect Entiva to the assistant you already use and ask in your own words. Each answer names the filing it relies on, so you can open it and check. - **Your companies only.** It reads the companies you bought or were given access to, and nothing else. - **Read-only.** It cannot order, pay, share or change anything in your account. - **No extra charge from Entiva.** Your assistant does the answering on the plan you already have. [Connect ChatGPT or Claude](https://entiva.in/chatgpt-and-claude/). ## What the register cannot tell you - **It holds what was filed, not what is true.** A document proves a filing was made on a date. It does not prove the contents were accurate. - **Filings lag reality by months.** Annual accounts arrive well after the year they describe: for a 31 March year end they are not due until about 30 October, 7 months later, and late filers take longer. Nobody has a current revenue figure for a private Indian company, including us. (Companies Act 2013, section 96 (AGM within six months of the year end) and section 137 (AOC-4 within 30 days of the AGM)) - **Some companies simply have not filed.** Where a company is in default a category can be genuinely empty. We distinguish an empty category from a failed retrieval and tell you which one we found. - **This is not legal or investment advice.** We deliver primary documents. What they mean for your decision is a judgement for you and your advisers. ## More - [What you can find out](https://entiva.in/what-you-can-find.md) - [What you can do with Entiva](https://entiva.in/features.md) - [Download MCA documents online](https://entiva.in/how-it-works.md) - [MCA document download pricing](https://entiva.in/pricing.md) - [Frequently asked questions](https://entiva.in/faqs.md) - [Ask ChatGPT or Claude about the filings you hold](https://entiva.in/chatgpt-and-claude.md) - [About Entiva](https://entiva.in/about.md) - [Annual filing dates](https://entiva.in/annual-filing-dates.md) - [Check whether a company name is taken](https://entiva.in/company-name-check.md) - [Explore companies by state and activity](https://entiva.in/company-explorer.md) - [Registrations by district and month](https://entiva.in/district-explorer.md) _Published by Entiva (https://entiva.in/), which retrieves documents from the Ministry of Corporate Affairs' View Public Documents service on a customer's behalf. 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