IPL match-fixing: MS Dhoni sues top media house, seeks Rs. 100 crore for tarnishing his image

Chennai: Indian skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni on Tuesday moved Madras High Court seeking Rs. 100cr as damage from a top media house for wrongly involving & accusing him of match fixing. In his plea, Dhoni has denied his involvement in any such unlawful activities and alleged that the news channel had wrongly accused him in match fixing scandal and maligned his image. According to a report published in an English daily, Dhoni has already won an interim order from the court restraining the media house for two weeks from telecasting interviews or news pertaining to certain IPL match-fixing allegations against him. The Chennai Super Kings (CSK) captain said that his hard-earned reputation was under stake and his name was being sullied by unverified reports. Notably, the sixth edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL 6) was hit by match-fixing, spot-fixing scandals. Various cricketers' names were surfaced in the Justice Mukul Mudgal Committee report.