Telecom company accuses Dhoni of 'willfully' misleading court

October 05, 2016 00:41

A telecom company for which Indian cricketer Mahendra Singh Dhoni was a brand ambassador on Tuesday accused him in Delhi High Court of "wilfully" misleading the court for creating "alarmist circumstances".

The top officer of Maxx Mobilink Pvt Ltd, who has been accused by Dhoni of defying the High Court 2014 order that the company should not use his name to promote and sell its product, said it never indulged in misusing the name of the ODI captain to take any advantage.

In an affidavit filed in pursuance to the April 21 order, Ajjay R Agarwal, Managing Director of the firm, claimed that the company had not sold any products post November 17, 2014 in which image and name of Dhoni was used or misused and they did not have any such stock in its custody after that date.

Dhoni had an endorsement agreement with the company which had expired in December 2012.

While seeking that Dhoni's plea for initiating contempt against him be dismissed with cost, the MD said "I say and submit that the company has removed all material from its own websites and from social media websites including Facebook."

"However, at this juncture, I say and submit that the petitioner number one (Dhoni) is guilty of wilfully misleading this court for the sake of creating alarmist circumstances," Agarwal said in his affidavit filed before Justice Manmohan.

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