108.Tenant's a right to claim inquiry for illegal exaction and other matters.- If any landholder or his agent--
(i) dishonestly collects a premium prohibited by this Act, or any sum, or produce in excess of the amount which is
due as arrears of rent, or as sayar, or
(ii) charges interest on an arrear of rent, not expressly allowed by this Act or at a rate exceeding that allowed by
this Act, or
(iii) realises, by proceedings in court or otherwise, any rent of which payment has been remitted, or, before the
expiry of the period of suspension, any rent of which payment has been suspended under the provisions of this
Act, of
(iv) habitually refuses or neglects to deliver to the tenant a receipt, or does not prepare and retain a counterfoil of
the receipt in the manner prescribed by this Act, or
(v) without reasonable cause, credits or applies a payment made towards rent otherwise than in accordance with
the provisions of this Act,
the sub-divisional officer shall, on the application of the tenant, if made within six months of the contravention of the
provision of this Act to which the complaint relates, institute an inquiry and, if he is satisfied that the charge is
established, shall award to the tenant monetary compensation not exceeding two hundred rupees and submit the
record of the case for confirmation of the order passed by him to the collector.
109.Power to award compensation in proceedings for arrears of rent.- (1) If, in the course of proceedings for the
realisation of arrears of rent, the trial or the confirming court finds that the landholder has committed any of the
acts enumerated in clauses (i) to (v) of section 108, it may award to the tenant compensation, not exceeding one
hundred rupees.
(2) If such compensation is awarded by the trial court, the record of the case shall be submitted for confirmation of
the order passed by it to the sub-divisional officer, and if by the confirming court, to the collector.
110.Prosecution of landholder for illegal exaction.- If a landholder or his agent collects from a tenant any lag or
neg, he shall be deemed to have committed an offence of extortion within the meaning of the Indian Penal Code
(Act XLV of 1860).