A defamation suit has been filed against legendary India captain MS Dhoni by his two former business partners in the Delhi High Court.
According to a report in news agency PTI, plaintiffs Mihir Diwakar and his wife Soumya Das, former business partners of Dhoni, approached the high court seeking a permanent injunction and damages against Dhoni, several social media platforms and media houses and thereby restraining them from making, publishing, circulating per se defamatory, ex facie false and malicious statements against them.
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The defendants be restrained from damaging the reputation of the plaintiffs in relation to the false allegations allegedly made by Dhoni relating to purported illegal gains of Rs 15 crores from him and breach of a 2017 contract, the plaint said.
Earlier, Dhoni, a two-time world cup winning India captain, filed a criminal case against Diwakar and Das claiming that they have duped him of around Rs 16 crore by not honouring a contract to establish cricket academies, according to his lawyer.
The case has been filed in a lower court in Ranchi against two directors of Aarka Sports, a sports management company.
Dhoni’s representatives said they have filed a criminal case on behalf of the cricketer in a competent court in Ranchi against Aarka Sports directors Mihir Diwakar and Soumya Das under Section 406 (criminal breach of trust) and 420 (cheating) of the Indian Penal Code.
The defamation plea has been listed for hearing on January 18 before Justice Prathiba M Singh.
With PTI Inputs
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