Hi,
I took a fully furnished apartment on rent in April 2014 at 27k/month rent. The owner introduced a clause of 11 months Lock-in as she was going out of country. However, due to visa problem, she returned to Bangalore after 4 months and started pressurising me to vacate the premise. Invoking a particular clause in the agreement, she would come to the apartment and stay for long hours and cause annoyance. After I got married in December, I finally moved out of the apartment - breaking the Lock-in agreement. Now she is creating hassle returning my deposit amount of Rs.1.6 lakh, saying that the walls in her room got damaged due to leakage from toilet. The fact being that there was leakage in the toilet even when I got possession of house. It spread quickly during monsoon time to 4 walls. Now she is demanding 25k to get it painted while the real cost of painting is just 5k. She is also asking me to get a notarized document stating the money being returned and handing over of her keys, if I want the money back. She has harassed me at multiple occasion - this time she even said that she would send some guys into my new apartment while my wife is alone. What would be the best way to handle her? I am also afraid that she would fly out of country within a week or so.