M/s Power Mech Projects Ltd. filed a writ petition under Article 226 of the Constitution before the Madhya Pradesh High Court seeking quashment of a complaint (No. 414/2022) filed by Mapaex Minerals before the Economic Offences Wing (EOW), Bhopal, alleging fraud and financial irregularities arising out of a commercial MoU related to sand extraction projects. The petitioner argued that the dispute was purely civil/contractual in nature and had already been adjudicated through arbitration, culminating in an Arbitral Award dated 06.07.2025 dismissing both parties' claims, and that the criminal complaint was filed to exert pressure after the petitioner failed to obtain relief in arbitration. Respondent No. 2 (Mapaex Minerals) opposed the petition on preliminary grounds, contending that the petitioner had suppressed material facts — notably that the complaint was actually filed on 09.11.2022 (before the Arbitral Award), not after it as the petitioner had represented — and that the complaint had not even been placed on record. The EOW/State argued that the complaint disclosed serious allegations of fraud and diversion of funds, that no FIR had yet been registered, that the inquiry was at a nascent stage, and that civil and criminal remedies can proceed simultaneously. The judgment text as provided does not record a final operative order, as the text ends mid-sentence before the court's conclusion is stated.