Dhoni’s contempt plea | Madras Excessive Courtroom sentences IPS officer to 15 days imprisonment

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The Madras Excessive Courtroom on Friday, December 15, 2023, sentenced IPS officer G. Sampath Kumar to 15 days of easy imprisonment in a contempt of courtroom petition filed by ace cricketer Mahendra Singh Dhoni in opposition to the officer for having made contumacious remarks in opposition to the Supreme Courtroom in addition to the Excessive Courtroom.

Justices S.S. Sundar and Sunder Mohan, nevertheless, suspended the sentence for a interval of 30 days to allow the contemnor to desire an enchantment earlier than the Supreme Courtroom. The suspension was ordered by the courtroom suo motu although the contemnor had not made any such plea.

Within the petition filed by senior counsel P.R. Raman, the cricketer had urged the courtroom to punish Mr. Kumar for his remarks in opposition to the judiciary in his written assertion filed in response to a ₹100 crore defamation swimsuit filed in opposition to the IPS officer by the cricketer in 2014 for having named him within the Indian Premier League (IPL) betting rip-off.

Advocate Normal R. Shunmugasundaram had granted permission to the cricketer, as required underneath the Contempt of Courts Act, to maneuver the prison contempt of courtroom petition after being glad that the remarks made by the IPS officer within the written assertion amounted to scandalising courtroom proceedings.

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