Certain Petitions cannot be invoked with Cr.P.C. provisions and Protest Petition is one such.

Police after conducting an inquiry on the FIR, it issued on receipt of a Complaint at the first instance to the Complainant, closes it, terming it; mistaken of facts –i.e., finding no merits in the Complaint after its investigations. The Complainant protest such move of the Police by filing a Petition in the Jurisdiction Court and which is called Protest Petition.