The Madras High Court, on Tuesday (November 4, 2025), dismissed an appeal filed by retired Indian Police Service (IPS) officer G. Sampath Kumar against the appointment of an advocate commissioner to record the evidence of cricketer Mahendra Singh Dhoni in a ₹100 crore defamation suit filed by the latter for dragging his name in to the 2013 Indian Premier League (IPL) betting scam.
A Division Bench of Justices S.M. Subramaniam and Mohammed Shaffiq refused to entertain the appeal after observing that the presence of the cricketer in the High Court would require elaborate security arrangements to be made and hence there was nothing wrong in having appointed an advocate commissioner to record his evidence elsewhere.
