The Code of Criminal Procedure allows an aggrieved person to choose his forums or gave him certain options when his plea was ignored by one Forum, then he could chose to represent in another.

In ordinary sense, a Complaint to the Police is inevitable when a person has received bodily injuries, because, injuries are quite visible and the aggrieved might lose his limbs or life due to those injuries. If aggrieved or his kith and kin report to Police and the bounden duty of the Police is to investigate the matter and take the Complaint to the Court so that justice is delivered to the victim and people’s faith on the law & order is sustained or ensure avoidance of lawlessness in the State.  Similarly, when a person is cheated and his Complaint to the Police did not get him desired result, although he has few options like escalating the matter to higher official and invoking Section 156[3] thereafter praying the Jurisdiction Magistrate to direct the Respondent Police to book the Accused and bring him to the justice or he himself directly approach the Court under Section 200 Cr.P.C. and file a Complaint against the Accused praying restoration of lost resources. This is Private Complaint.