A local court in Anantapur district, Andhra Pradesh, recalled a bailable warrant it had issued last month against India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni. The warrant was issued in connection with a complaint which accused Dhoni of hurting the religious sentiments of Hindus.
Dhoni’s lawyers Pankaj Bhagla and M. Vishnuvardhan Reddy on Wednesday, July 16, filed a “vakalatnama” before the sessions court judge Y. Vijayakumar who accepted it and withdrew the warrant before posting the matter for final hearing on July 25.
The lawyers told the court that Dhoni came to know about the warrant against him only through the media. The complaint in this regard had been filed in June last year by Gopal Rao and Shyam Sunder who reportedly belong to a right wing Hindu organisation. The duo had said Dhoni was shown in the form of a Hindu deity on the cover page of a business magazine, holding among other things a shoe in his hand, which they said was “hurting the religious sentiments.” They also wanted registration of an offence against the editor of the magazine, who is now no longer with the publication.
