Two former business partners of the legendary Indian captain MS Dhoni have filed a defamation case against him in the Delhi High Court.
The defendants, Mihir Diwakar and his wife Soumya Das, who were once business associates of Dhoni, have approached the high court, seeking a permanent injunction and damages against Dhoni, various social media platforms, and media houses. The objective is to restrain them from making, publishing, or circulating inherently defamatory, manifestly false, and baseless statements against them.
The plaintiffs have requested the court to restrain them from harming their reputation regarding alleged false accusations made by Dhoni, involving purported illegal gains of Rs 15 crores and a breach of a 2017 contract.
Before it, the former Indian captain MS Dhoni initiated a criminal case against Diwakar and Das, asserting that they defrauded him of approximately Rs 16 crore by failing to uphold a contract to establish cricket academies, as stated by his lawyer.
The case has been lodged in a lower court in Ranchi against two directors of Aarka Sports, a sports management company.
Representatives of Dhoni have stated that they have filed a criminal case on behalf of Captain Cool in a competent court in Ranchi against Aarka Sports directors Mihir Diwakar and Soumya Das. The charges include Section 406 (criminal breach of trust) and 420 (cheating) of the Indian Penal Code.