Indian Kanoon allows you to look for words and phrases in the main document text and in the title of documents. Some words that you may like to search are freedom of speech, murder, copyright infringement, proclamation of emergency, reservation for other backward castes, reservation in private colleges, and sexual harassment. For phrases, enclose a set of words by quotation marks. For example, in order to search for phrase freedom of speech in the document text, you need to type "freedom of speech" in the document text box.

Title search allows you to quickly locate a particular document. Title contains significant information about the document. Specifically, it contains petitioner, respondent and date for judgments and section numbers and act name for statutes. For example, to search for Section 19(1) in the Constitution of India, just type article 19(1) in constitution of india in title search.

By default, Indian Kanoon will query all documents and try to find out the most appropriate section/article, subsection or sub-subsection to a particular query. However, Indian Kanoon may sometimes give you terrible results. In this case, you can narrow your result set by selecting only the set of documents that you are interested in.

The document selection allows you to target your query to only a narrow set of documents. A law passed by the Parliament of India is divided into section/article, subsection and sub-subsection. For example, Constitution of India will be available as the complete document, articles like Article 19 (protection of certain rights), subsection as Article 19(1) (all citizens have the rights) and sub-subsection as Article 19(1)(a) as (freedom of speech and expression).

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