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Retired Indian Police Service (IPS) serviceman G. Sampath Kumar has filed yet different entreaty earlier the Madras High Court challenging a single judge’s August 11, 2025, order appointing an advocator commissioner to grounds the grounds of cricketer Mahendra Singh Dhoni successful a ₹100 crore defamation suit filed by the second against him and a fewer others for dragging his sanction successful the 2013 IPL betting scam.
A Division Bench of Justices S.M. Subramaniam and M. Jothiraman had connected Friday (October 31, 2025) dismissed his erstwhile entreaty against the 2021 refusal of a azygous justice to cull the defamation suit. The Bench refused to entertain that entreaty aft being convinced with the submissions of elder counsel P.R. Raman, representing Mr. Dhoni, that determination was nary substance successful the appellant’s plea to cull the suit.
When his latest appeal, against assignment of advocator commissioner, was listed for proceeding earlier a Division Bench of Justices Subramaniam and Mohammed Shaffiq, Mr. Raman raised objection to definite “highly offensive” remarks made by him against the judiciary. Hence, the judges asked the appellant’s counsel to record an affidavit withdrawing those remarks and decided to perceive the lawsuit adjacent connected November 4, 2025.
The appellant had told the tribunal that helium was serving arsenic Superintendent of Police, ‘Q’ Branch CID (Internal Security) successful 2013 erstwhile helium stumbled into a cricket betting syndicate and unearthed a web of bookies portion investigating a fake passport scam. He claimed his investigating squad had interrogated a Chennai-based kingpin who exposed the full process of lucifer fixing.
The retired IPS serviceman told the Division Bench helium had besides deposed earlier the Justice Mudgal Committee constituted by the Supreme Court regarding the issue. However, helium claimed a tv writer subsequently conducted a sting cognition connected him and recorded the speech that they some had regarding the cricket betting and telecasted the visuals connected February 23, 2014.
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Immediately, the appellant was placed nether suspension for interacting with the media. Further, listing retired assorted proceedings that followed aft the incident, helium said, Mr. Dhoni had filed the defamation suit successful 2014 seeking a whopping magnitude of ₹100 crore successful damages though a lawsuit related to the larger contented of cricket betting was inactive pending earlier the Supreme Court.
Further, objecting to the azygous judge’s bid appointing an advocator commissioner to grounds the grounds of Mr. Dhoni astatine immoderate mutually convenient spot truthful that the cricketer request not person to look earlier the Master’s tribunal located wrong the High Court buildings, the appellant said, each litigants indispensable beryllium treated arsenic and nary privilege oregon precedence indispensable beryllium fixed to the celebrities.
