Retired Indian Police Service (IPS) officer G. Sampath Kumar has filed yet another appeal before the Madras High Court challenging a single judge’s August 11, 2025, order appointing an advocate commissioner to record the evidence of cricketer Mahendra Singh Dhoni in a ₹100 crore defamation suit filed by the latter against him and a few others for dragging his name in the 2013 IPL betting scam.
A Division Bench of Justices S.M. Subramaniam and M. Jothiraman had on Friday (October 31, 2025) dismissed his previous appeal against the 2021 refusal of a single judge to reject the defamation suit. The Bench refused to entertain that appeal after being convinced with the submissions of senior counsel P.R. Raman, representing Mr. Dhoni, that there was no substance in the appellant’s plea to reject the suit.
When his latest appeal, against appointment of advocate commissioner, was listed for hearing before a Division Bench of Justices Subramaniam and Mohammed Shaffiq, Mr. Raman raised objection to certain “highly offensive” remarks made by him against the judiciary. Hence, the judges asked the appellant’s counsel to file an affidavit withdrawing those remarks and decided to hear the case next on November 4, 2025.
