MS Dhoni Plea: A bench of the Madras High Court on Friday directed Indian Police Service (IPS) officer G Sampath Kumar to appear on December 9 in connection with the contempt plea of ​​cricketer Mahendra Singh Dhoni. A bench of Justice PN Prakash and Justice RMT Tika Raman issued the notice while hearing the contempt petition. Let us inform that Sampath was involved in the investigation of IPL spot-fixing and betting cases of 2013.

In fact, Dhoni has moved the High Court with a prayer to initiate contempt proceedings and issue summons against Sampath Kumar for his alleged statements against the Supreme Court and some senior lawyers in the cricket match-fixing case. Basically, Dhoni had filed a civil suit in 2014 to permanently restrain Sampath Kumar from making any slanderous and objectionable statements linking Dhoni to match-fixing and spot-fixing of cricket matches.

Dhoni also requested the High Court to direct Sampath Kumar to pay Rs 100 crore as damages. The High Court had restrained Sampath Kumar from making any statement against Dhoni by an interim order passed on March 18, 2014. The comment was made despite the stay order. Dhoni filed the present contempt petition on October 11, after obtaining consent from Advocate General R Shanmugasundaram on July 18 this year to file the contempt petition.