Chennai: The Madras High Court on Tuesday reserved its verdict on an appeal filed by retired IPS officer G. Sampath Kumar, challenging the dismissal of his plea to reject a Rs 100-crore defamation suit filed against him by former Indian cricket team captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni.

A Division Bench comprising Justices S.M. Subramaniam and M. Jothiraman reserved judgment after hearing senior counsel P.R. Raman for Dhoni and advocate R.C. Paul Kanagaraj for the retired officer. The appeal was filed against a 2021 order of a single judge who refused to strike out Dhoni’s defamation claim.

Dhoni had moved the High Court in 2014 seeking Rs 100 crore in damages from Zee Media Corporation, journalist Sudhir Chaudhary, then IPS officer Sampath Kumar, and News Nation Network, for allegedly dragging

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