{"id":34397,"date":"2017-04-21T04:25:02","date_gmt":"2017-04-21T04:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=34397"},"modified":"2017-04-21T04:25:02","modified_gmt":"2017-04-21T04:25:02","slug":"supreme-court-quashes-complaint-against-mahendra-singh-dhoni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=34397","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court quashes complaint against Mahendra Singh Dhoni"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-31847\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/MS-Dhoni-India-A.jpg\" alt=\"MS Dhoni India A\" style=\"margin-right: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; float: left;\" width=\"520\" height=\"352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/MS-Dhoni-India-A.jpg 520w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/MS-Dhoni-India-A-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/MS-Dhoni-India-A-150x102.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/>New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday quashed a criminal complaint against former India cricket captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni by an Andhra Pradesh resident following his depiction as Lord Vishnu by a business magazine.<\/p>\n<p>Quashing the criminal complaint, the bench headed by Justice Dipak Misra said that the ingredients of the offence alleged in the criminal complaint amounting to hurting the religious feelings of the complainant are not made out.<\/p>\n<p>Another bench of the apex court had in September last year quashed an identical complaint filed by another complainant before a court in Bengaluru.<\/p>\n<p>In the magazine cover that was released in 2013, Dhoni &#8211;dressed up as Lord Vishnu &#8212; was seen holding several objects in his hands, including a shoe.<\/p>\n<p>A court in Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh had issued a non-bailable warrant against him for allegedly hurting religious sentiments.<\/p>\n<p>That had prompted Dhoni to approach the Supreme Court seeking quashing of the criminal proceedings against him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-31847\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/MS-Dhoni-India-A.jpg\" alt=\"MS Dhoni India A\" style=\"margin-right: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; float: left;\" width=\"520\" height=\"352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/MS-Dhoni-India-A.jpg 520w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/MS-Dhoni-India-A-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/MS-Dhoni-India-A-150x102.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/>New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday quashed a criminal complaint against former India cricket captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni by an Andhra Pradesh resident following his depiction as Lord Vishnu by a business magazine.<\/p>\n<p>Quashing the criminal complaint, the bench headed by Justice Dipak Misra said that the ingredients of the offence alleged in the criminal complaint amounting to hurting the religious feelings of the complainant are not made out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31847,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[4744,466,22009,622,9321],"class_list":["post-34397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket-cricket","tag-cricket-news","tag-indian-sports-news","tag-lord-vishnu","tag-mahendra-singh-dhoni","tag-supreme-court"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Supreme Court quashes complaint against Mahendra Singh Dhoni - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=34397\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Supreme Court quashes complaint against Mahendra Singh Dhoni - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday quashed a criminal complaint against former India cricket captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni by an Andhra Pradesh resident following his depiction as Lord Vishnu by a business magazine. 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