Criminal Case by tenant to pressurize
Premises are leased out on the basis of Registered Lease Deed. The premises are vacated by the tenant causing heavy damages, The Security Deposit is not sufficient to cover the said damages so the landlord files a suit for recovery in the Rent Tribunal.
There are some cheques of the tenant towards the rent so the Landlord also filed cases under Section 138
The tenant a highly placed IAS Officer’s son, files a complaint with the Police and the Police starts building up pressure on the Landlord to withdraw the case and refund the Security Deposit. Meanwhile the tenant files a complaint u/s 420 & 406 in the Court and the same is sent to the Police station for investigation under Section 156(3). Now he being a highly placed person is pressurizing the Landlord, through the Police, using this FIR as a weapon, to withdraw the recovery Y ch return cases filed byteh landlord against him.
What is the remedy? Pl give details
How can non refunding of a deposit fall under a criminal case, it being a purely civil nature of transaction/dispute?
