I was evcited under section 24 of maharashtra rent control Act (MRCA) from a premises whichI had taken on leave and license agreement, following a suit which lasted 4 years. My land lord gave me rent receipts during first two years of tencancy but stopped giving after that time , inspite of my requests to issue the same. Now after one year after my eviction, I put him to legal notice under section 30 of MRCA that he was guilty of a cognisable offence as envsiaged in section 53 of MRCA and he must provide me all the receipts. The counsel of the land lord replied that the receipts were not given as all the payments were through check( It is correct factually). However he sent all the receipts of all the months of whole span of my tenancy. He even sent receipts for those months also for which he had already issued receipts earlier as mentioned above . The two sets of receipts are at variance with each other and the second set or receipts is clearly ingenuine. There are slovenly mistakes in other receipts also, clearly indicating that the receipts have been generated by computer in one sitting with scant regard to account book. These unstamped receipts bearing scrawling signature of a clerk who has purportedly signed on behalf of land lord. The details and contents are grossly erroneous and contrived. I am planning to file a suit under section 53 of MRCA and section 463,464, 467 adn 471 of IPC for forgigng the rent receipts. What is opinion of experts? As for limitation the last payment made by me was 11 months back by check of course . The fresh cause of action arose when he replied to notice and confessed that he had not issued receipts as the payments were made in check , and at same time in order to mitigate culpability fooled me by sending cooked up rent receipts.
