Is this matter civil or criminal?

Hi Shailesh, This matter can either be civil or criminal, it depends on you how you want to proceed and whether you prepared any promissory note, loan agreement or taken any security checks before giving the money. If you have prepared the above-mentioned things before giving money, then you can proceed with a civil suit under Order 32 of Civil Procedure Code for the recovery of your money. The first thing you need to do is serve the defaulting party with a legal notice give them a period of time in which they have to return your money. If they don’t return money in that time, you will be eligible to file the civil suit. You can also file a charge of cheating against the person not returning your money u/s 420 of Indian Penal Code, it will be then treated as a criminal case. For this you don't need any prepared documents. Yes, you can file an online suit regarding this. All you have to do is go to efiling.ecourts.gov.in and proceed step wise. Take a help of a lawyer in filing the online case if you can

You can proceed for efiling as advised. e-Filing system is a complete end to end solution developed for online filing of plaints, written statements, replies and various applications related to cases. Both Civil and Criminal cases can be filed before any High Court or District Court of the country. It is designed in Bilingual (English and local language) to reach wider group covering advocates/litigants.

As per your concern, this is a criminal matter. In case you have valid details of transactions that you made to her, you may attach it with a registered complaint to a local police station under sections 406 & 420 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) for Criminal breach of trust as well as for cheating respectively.

Regards,
Kevin M. Paul