Two ex-business partners of former Indian Men’s Cricket Team captain, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, have filed a defamation case against him in the Delhi High Court. MS Dhoni had earlier filed a criminal case against both of them for duping him of Rs 15 crore.
According to a PTI report, the defamation case was filed by Dhoni’s former business partners Mihir Diwakar and his wife Soumya Das, who are directors of a sports management company ‘Aarka Sports’, seeking a permanent injunction and damages against Dhoni, several social media platforms and media houses.
In the plea, the couple has sought to restrain the cricketer from damaging their reputation concerning the “false allegations” allegedly made by Dhoni in connection with purported illegal gains of Rs 15 crores from him.
Dhoni had filed the case against the couple in a lower court in Ranchi.
According to Dhoni’s lawyer, Dayanand Singh, in 2017, two accused had approached Dhoni to establish cricket academies in India and abroad in his name.
As per the agreement, Dhoni was to receive the full franchise fee and profits were to be shared on a 70:30 basis between the cricketer and the partners.
Later on, however, the accused began establishing academies without informing the cricketer and did not make any payments to him, Singh stated.
Dhoni sent several legal notices to the accused but to no avail.
“MS Dhoni revoked his authority on August 15, 2021. Despite this, they continued to set up academies in around eight to ten locations…We served them legal notices twice for violating the agreement norms. They duped MS Dhoni of more than Rs 15 crore,” the lawyer said, reported Hindustan Times.
The criminal case was filed on October 27 last year under Sections 406 and 420 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).
(With PTI inputs)
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