NEW DELHI: The Madras Excessive Court docket has sentenced IPS officer G Sampath Kumar to 15 days of straightforward imprisonment in a contempt of court docket case filed by former Indian cricket workforce captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni. A division bench comprising Justices S S Sundar and Sunder Mohan handed the order whereas responding to a petition filed by Dhoni wherein he had accused the IPS officer of creating derogatory remarks in opposition to each the Supreme Court docket and the Madras HC in reference to the 2013 IPL betting case.
The bench, nonetheless, suspended the operation of the sentence for 30 days to allow Sampath Kumar to favor an attraction in opposition to the sentence.
2013 IPL Betting Case
The case dates again to 2014 when Dhoni had filed a Rs 100 crore defamation swimsuit in opposition to Kumar, who had initially dealt with the 2013 IPL betting case. The swimsuit was in response to allegations made by Kumar, linking Dhoni to the IPL betting scandal.
Kumar, in a written assertion, had accused the SC of deviating from the rule of legislation and had questioned the dealing with of the Justice Mudgal Committee report, which was established to research the 2013 match-fixing allegations. He had additionally alleged that the SC had motives in withholding sure paperwork from the Central Bureau of Investigation.
Dhoni, in his petition, had highlighted these statements as ”scandalous and contumacious”, immediately attacking the integrity of the judicial system. The petition, filed by means of senior counsel P R Raman, urged the court docket to take strict motion in opposition to Kumar for his remarks. The Advocate Normal of Tamil Nadu, R Shunmugasundaram, after reviewing the case, granted permission to Dhoni to maneuver the prison contempt of court docket petition.
Who Is G Sampath Kumar?
G Sampath Kumar is a Tamil Nadu-based IPS officer who investigated the 2013 betting scandal. He was taken off the probe after it was revealed that some bookies gave him cash to get their names out of the case. Nevertheless, the suspended officer was cleared by a court docket citing an absence of proof in 2019.
