NEW DELHI – Former Indian skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni has been deprivedoff Rs 150 crore by an Indian company.
MS Dhoni through his agency Rhiti Sports, has sued the real estate firmover dues amounting to Rs 150 crore. According to a report in The EconomicTimes, Rhiti Sports has filed a recovery suit in the Delhi High Court inthis regard.
Managing director of Rhiti Sports, Arun Pandey, was quoted by EconomicTimes as saying that the Amrapali Group had not paid the dues for brandingand marketing activities.
In February, the Supreme Court had pulled up the Amrapali Group, saying itshared the concerns of home buyers and the group consider their plight andabide by the proposal to complete the housing projects and hand thempossession in accordance with the time frame.
It had permitted the group to “immediately start” the work as proposed bythe firm in the residential towers of its Leisure Park housing project inGreater Noida West in Uttar Pradesh and said the group should be “true” tothe assurances given in the court as well as to the home buyers.
Dhoni had resigned as the brand ambassador of the group in April 2016,after being trolled on social media by residents of an Amprapali housingproject angry over incomplete work.
Though Dhoni had said at that time that it had become difficult for thebuilders in the prevailing economic scenario, he had maintained that”whatever is promised, irrespective of where they stand, I think it needsto be met”.
The complaints from the residents of Amrapali Group’s Saphhire project inNoida had gone viral on microblogging site Twitter after they tagged Dhoniin their tweets asking the cricketer to dis-associate himself from thebuilder or force the company to ensure completion of pending work.