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Directorship (DIN) Lookup API

Start from a PAN or DIN and discover the person's Director Identification Number status and every company they are on the board of. The fastest way to surface conflicts of interest, disqualified directors and undisclosed business ties.

Response
Real-time
Inputs
1 required · 3 optional
Consent
Not required
Billing
Per successful call
POST /v1/mca-directorship-lookup
Sandbox · Production
  1. Your application sends

    • PAN number*
    • Full name
    • Date of birth
    • DIN
  2. emver API

    Validates the request, queries the source, normalises the answer and logs the call. Billed only on success.

  3. Verified with

    MCA21 corporate registry

  4. You receive

    • DIN status
    • Registered name
    • List of companies with directorship role
mca-directorship-lookup Full reference
Overview

What the Directorship (DIN) Lookup API does

Directors carry legal responsibility for the companies they serve, and their history follows them. The Directorship Lookup API maps a person to their DIN and lists current and past directorships, so you can see whether a vendor's promoter also sits on a competitor's board, whether a hire has undisclosed businesses, or whether a DIN has been deactivated or disqualified.

It is central to ultimate beneficial owner (UBO) work, senior-hire due diligence and any PMLA-driven KYC where the people behind an entity matter as much as the entity itself.

Benefits

Why teams use the Directorship (DIN) Lookup API

Resolve a person's directorships and DIN status from the corporate registry.

Surface hidden interests

See every company a person directs, including ones they did not mention.

Disqualification check

A deactivated or disqualified DIN is flagged immediately.

UBO mapping

Build ownership and control graphs for PMLA and vendor risk programmes.

Real-time

No manual registry searches during senior-hire or vendor reviews.

Use cases

Where it's called

Where the Directorship (DIN) Lookup API is typically called, and what it settles there.

Senior and executive hiring

Detect moonlighting, conflicts of interest and undisclosed businesses.

Vendor and partner KYB

Verify promoters and directors behind a counterparty.

Corporate lending KYC

Identify directors and beneficial owners for regulatory files.

Investigations and audits

Trace related-party relationships through shared directorships.

How it works

Four steps, one response envelope

Request and response details, environments and a ready-to-import collection are in the developer console.

  1. 01

    Authenticate

    Call with your organisation API key. Sandbox and production use the same contract.

  2. 02

    Send the inputs

    PAN number as a JSON body. Optional fields sharpen the match.

  3. 03

    We verify at source

    emver queries the authoritative record, normalises the answer and logs the request.

  4. 04

    Act on the result

    A verification status plus the fields listed above, in the same response envelope as every other API.

Privacy and security built in

Consent recorded · Payloads not retained beyond your retention window · Every request traceable

FAQ

Directorship (DIN) Lookup API: frequently asked questions

What teams ask before adding the Directorship (DIN) Lookup API to their integration.

No. A PAN is enough to resolve the DIN. If you already hold the DIN, sending it makes the lookup exact.

Yes. The response lists companies with the person's role, including ceased positions where the registry records them.

emver's workflows can run it automatically for designated roles, and the result appears in the case report next to employment and identity checks.

Related

APIs that run alongside it

Usually called with the Directorship (DIN) Lookup API, on the same key.

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