The owners and a representative of popular eatery Rameshwaram Cafe in Karnataka have been booked on charges of selling noxious food, criminal conspiracy and fabricating false evidence, among other offences, police said on Monday.

Following a complaint lodged by Nikhil N, who alleged serious food safety violation and subsequent attempt to defame him through a false counter-complaint, the FIR was registered against the eatery's owner - Raghavendra Rao, his wife Divya Raghavendra Rao and senior executive Sumanth Lakshminarayan at the BIAL police station on November 29, they said.