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3. The genesis of the issue is with regard to a sub- contract awarded to respondent No.2 - complainant, by the petitioners who are the office bearers of M/s.Ramalingam Constructions Private Limited, who was awarded a contract of construction of a channel at Shivamogga on the bed of the Tunga river. The contract is awarded on 21.04.2017. After the contract was awarded to the petitioners, the company is said to NC: 2024:KHC:37872 have entered into a sub-contract with respondent No.2 - complainant by drawing up certain terms and conditions. The dispute between the two, i.e., the contractor and the sub- contractor arose for the payment of money and settlement of dispute between them. The petitioners are said to have registered a complaint against respondent No.2 - complainant in the case at hand. It transpires that the complaint comes to be closed by drawing up a non-cognizable report on the ground that the complainant approaches the police station and admits that he would not claim anything more than what has been claimed by him earlier. Immediately thereafter, a private complaint is registered by the complainant invoking Section 200 of the Cr.P.C. before the learned Magistrate and the matter has been referred under Section 156(3) of the Cr.P.C., for investigation and therefore, the impugned crime is registered by the jurisdictional police in Crime No.82/2023. The registration of the crime has driven the petitioners to this Court in the subject petition.