In a contempt petition filed by former captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni, the Madras High Court sentenced retired Indian Police Service (IPS) officer G Sampath Kumar to 15 days imprisonment on Friday. The bench comprising of justices SS Sundar and Sunder Mohan, who sentenced the officer, also suspended the jail sentence for 30 days to enable the IPS officer to appeal against the judjement.What are MSDs accisions on IPS officierInitially, the skipper of Chennai Super Kings, Dhoni filed a ₹100 crore defamation suit against Sampath Kumar. He was serving with the CID department of Tamil Nadu Police, and a television channel in 2014 for match-fixing allegations against him in the IPL betting case.The cricketer later filed a contempt petition against the IPS officer who turned 60 this May and retired. The petition cited denigrating remarks made by the IPS officer against the Supreme Court and the Madras High Court.How did it startSubsequent to accusations Sampath accepted bribes from certain bookies to clear their names, he was removed from the case and placed under suspension. The policeman, who was exonerated of the charge in 2019 due to insufficient evidence, has insisted that he was set up to prevent him from discovering the full scope of the scheme.
