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MS Dhoni: Madras High Court's big decision on MS Dhoni's petition, notice sent to IPS officer to appear

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  Former Team India captain MS Dhoni had filed in the Madras High Court against the IPS officer. Dhoni had said in the petition that Sampath Kumar is trying to malign his image and it is also contempt of court order. The Indian captain has demanded Rs 100 crore as damages. Former India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni has appointed IPS officer G. A petition was filed against Sampath Kumar in the Madras High Court. This petition is related to contempt of court order. Now the division bench of the High Court has given G. Sampath Kumar has been directed to appear in the court on December 9. A division bench of Justice PN Prakash and Justice RMT Tika Raman also issued a statutory notice in the matter on Friday (November 11). The court had put a stay on the statement This whole matter is related to IPL 2013 in which spot-fixing and betting cases came to light. Sampath Kumar was leading the spot-fixing case and he also commented on MS Dhoni. Dhoni had filed a civil suit in 2014 to permanentl...

Madras High Court Puts Puducherry Local Body Election Process On Hold

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Elections were scheduled to take place in three phases on October 21, 25 and 28. Chennai:  A few days after criticizing the Puducherry state election commission for anomalies in seats reserved for SCs, BCs and women in the local body elections, the Madras High Court on Monday put the election process on hold.  According to a report in IANS, the direction was given by a bench of Chief Justice Sanjib Banerjee and Justice PD Audikesavalu while hearing petitions that pointed out the anomalies in the reservation for these categories.  “The process of receiving nominations which had already begun in Puducherry would be kept in abeyance. Let the anomalies be addressed and removed before the process is undertaken afresh,” the court said as per the report.  The order came even as the additional solicitor general R Sankaranarayanan, who represented Puducherry, said that the union government had advised the union territory to defer the local body election. The court said that ...