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How to Check the Liquidation Status of a Company (2026)

Updated for 2026 · Claw Editorial

To check whether a company is in liquidation in India, you look for three things: the IBBI liquidation public announcement at ibbi.gov.in, which names the company and the liquidator and sets a claims deadline; the NCLT liquidation order at nclt.gov.in, which actually starts the liquidation under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code; and the MCA record, which can show the company as under liquidation. Read together, these tell you whether the company is being wound up and roughly how far the process has gone. This guide explains where the status shows, how to tell liquidation from an ongoing CIRP, and the limits of what a search can tell you. Last verified October 2026.

01The short answer

A company is in liquidation once the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) orders liquidation under Section 33 of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (IBC), usually because its CIRP did not end in an approved resolution plan. To check the status:

• Search the IBBI public announcements and filter for liquidation to see if the company is listed, with its liquidator and claims deadline.
• Check the NCLT for the liquidation order and any later orders.
• Cross-check the MCA record, which can show the company as under liquidation.

For the mechanics of how liquidation works, see the liquidation process under the IBC. This page is about checking a specific company's status.

02What liquidation means here

Liquidation is the winding up of a company under the IBC. A liquidator takes charge, sells the assets, and shares the money among creditors and others in a fixed order, after which the company is dissolved. It usually follows a failed CIRP, but a solvent company can also wind up through a separate route; see voluntary liquidation under the IBC.

Why the status matters to you:

• Once liquidation starts, recovery and rights change, and creditors are paid in the Section 53 order of priority, often called the waterfall.
• There is a fresh window to file claims with the liquidator, separate from any claim filed during the CIRP.
• Liquidation is the last stage, so it usually means a resolution plan could not be found.

03Where the status shows

As with a CIRP, no single portal shows everything, so read these together.

When a company goes into liquidation, the liquidator issues a public announcement in Form B under Regulation 12 of the IBBI (Liquidation Process) Regulations, 2016. It states the liquidation commencement date, the liquidator's details, and the last date for creditors to submit claims. This is the clearest confirmation that a company is in liquidation.

04Liquidation versus an ongoing CIRP

It is easy to confuse the two, because both are IBC processes before the NCLT, and both involve a professional and a public announcement. The simple test is which announcement and order you find:

• A CIRP has a Form A public announcement, a resolution professional, and the company is being run as a going concern while a rescue is attempted.
• A liquidation has a Form B public announcement, a liquidator, and an NCLT order under Section 33, and the company's assets are being sold off.

If you find a CIRP but not a liquidation, the company may still be in the resolution stage; see how to check a company's CIRP status. If both appear, the later one is usually the current position, but read the dates carefully.

05How far has it gone

Liquidation runs over a period, so the status is not just "in liquidation" but how far along it is. Signs to read from the record:

• Just ordered: there is a recent Section 33 order and a Form B announcement, but the claims deadline has not passed.
• Claims and sale stage: the claims period is over and the liquidator is realising assets.
• Distribution: money is being paid out in the Section 53 order of priority.
• Dissolution: the NCLT has ordered the company dissolved, which ends its existence.

Because the matter sits at the NCLT, you can pull the latest orders to see the stage; see case search at the NCLT and how to check an NCLT case status.

06What a clean result means

If you search and find no liquidation, read the result honestly. It means only that nothing is on record on the sources and the date you searched.

• The company may be in CIRP but not yet in liquidation, so there is no liquidation announcement yet.
• A liquidation order may be very recent and not yet in every list.
• You may have searched a wrong or former name; confirm the current legal name and CIN first.

So the safe conclusion is "no liquidation on record today", checked again if the position matters to 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.

Checking a liquidation status by hand means moving between the IBBI announcements, the NCLT and MCA, and a single look only speaks for one day. Claw and ClawScore let you find and track a company's insolvency, its NCLT and NCLAT filings and IBBI announcements, whether it is in CIRP or liquidation, alongside its wider litigation across 9,102 courts, benches and forums, with results in under 5 seconds. Constant monitoring flags what is New, Changed or Closed and sends an alert when a company moves from CIRP into liquidation or on to dissolution, 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 track a company's liquidation status and get alerts when it changes, and use case search across Indian courts to see its wider litigation.

08Sources and further reading

• Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (liquidation public announcements and regulations): ibbi.gov.in
• National Company Law Tribunal (liquidation 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. The IBC and its regulations change, so check the current law and the specific record before you act.

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