As per case facts, the Respondent filed a criminal complaint alleging Petitioners illegally constructed shops on a government street and committed fraud by tampering with revenue records to expand land. ... Petitioners were summoned under various IPC sections. The Petitioners appealed to the High Court, contending the dispute was civil, revenue authorities found no encroachment, and the Respondent's earlier civil suit regarding the same property was dismissed, while the Petitioners' civil suit was decreed. The question arose whether this criminal complaint, stemming from a civil dispute already adjudicated by civil courts, constituted an abuse of the process of law. Finally, the High Court, citing Supreme Court judgments, determined that the civil dispute was maliciously converted into a criminal offense without basis and quashed the criminal complaint and summoning order against the Petitioners.