ORDER :

The petitioners are before this Court calling in question registration of a private complaint by the 2nd respondent in P.C.R.No.15366 of 2022 before the XLII Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Bengaluru. Since the 1st petitioner is a member of the Legislative Assembly, it is posted before this special Bench.

2. Facts, adumbrated are as follows:-

The 1st petitioner at the relevant point in time was Chairman of the Land Grant Committee, Malur Taluk (‘the Committee’ for short) being a Member of the Legislative Assembly from Malur Constituency in Kolar District. The other petitioners are other Members of the Committee which was constituted under the provisions of the Karnataka Land Revenue Act, 1964 (‘the Act’ for short). The 2nd respondent is the complainant who sought to set the criminal law in motion claiming to be an activist and a public spirited person. On the allegation that when the 1st petitioner was the Chairman and other petitioners were Members of the Committee, have on the basis of fabricated documents and on creating bogus records, granted lands to several perso