In Mahomed Ibrahim v. Kattayan it is observed that it makes no difference whether the criminal prosecution is sanctioned or is one which may be launched in exercise of private right, without sanction. A sanction is at any rate the guarantee of an independent third party that the prosecution is not frivolous, and a mere move in the civil game. When a party has good reason to believe that he has been cheated by grave crime, if it is not his public duty, it is undoubtedly his private right to resort to the Criminal Court and I should hesitate to describe his action as precipitant.