You have not made it clear whether any FIR was registered in the matter (followed by charge sheet or closure report) by police or merely a non-cognizable report / complaint was taken on record. From what you have written, it does not appear to be a serious offence and it appears that merely a complaint was made and it appears that no FIR was perhaps registered, which could come in the way of a future employment.
The general rule in such matters is that when you get employment and have to fill in details of any offences committed in the past, you should always write truthfully. If there is a column meant specifically for FIR registered against you, the FIR, if any, registered, should be mentioned. If, in the above incident, no FIR was registered then there may be no need to mention about the above complaint under the heading of FIR. If, however, there is a separate heading of any other types of criminal complaints lodged (such as, including non-cognizable offence), then you should truthfully mention the details of whatever complaints have been lodged. But, then you can also mention about the end-results of such complaint. For example, if no action was taken by police on such complaint / FIR, then you must clearly mentioned that fact and also that the complaint was closed.
It always pays to be truthful in reporting about such incidents in the application form at the time of getting employment. If you hide it, during police verification, the department may still come to know about it and then it may be considered as a case of wilful concealment of the material information, which may adversely affect the future employment. However, if you have truthfully reported about the criminal complaints against you, and if such complaints are of minor nature, then it may not harm the employment prospects. There are judgments of the courts in this direction as per which every minor criminal complaint against you may not come in the way of your future employment provided you have reported the same truthfully.
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