The erstwhile business partners of cricket player MS Dhoni, Mihir Diwakar and his wife Soumya Das, were ordered by the Delhi High Court on Monday to provide specific claims against media outlets that they claim defamed them. The complainants were urged by the court to clarify how they were defamed by the news of Dhoni’s cheating complaint.
Attorney Siddhant Kumar contended that the media outlet carried accurate stories indicating that Dhoni had lodged a complaint against Diwakar and Das.
Dhoni’s legal representative contended that since the complaint’s events were all related to Ranchi, the defamation lawsuit cannot be maintained before the Delhi High Court.
Dhoni filed a complaint against his former Aarka Sports Management Pvt Ltd partners, claiming that they had defrauded him of about Rs 16 crore by breaching an agreement to open cricket academies in 2017. The claims of fraud have been refuted by the pair.
Diwakar and Das petitioned the High Court to stop Dhoni and other people from bringing false accusations against them in relation to a purported contract violation.
They declared that Dhoni’s accusations against them are absolutely untrue, ‘wild, false, baseless, vengeful, malicious, and unsubstantiated.’ The complaint further claimed that Dhoni’s attorney made the accusations in front of the public during a news conference with the goal to seriously and irreversibly harm them.