MS Dhoni moves Supreme Court to get Rs 40 crore from Amrapali

Former Indian cricket team captain, MS Dhoni has moved the Supreme Court to get Rs 40 crore from the Amrapali group for for using his services for branding and marketing activities.

Dhoni became the brand ambassador of the Amrapali Group in 2009 and continued to feature in its marketing and public relations activities till 2016.

Last year, Dhoni had sued the real estate group for over Rs 150 crores.


The real estate group is currently in dock for duping 46,000 homebuyers.The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed arrest of Amrapali Group Chairman and Managing Director Anil Kumar Sharma as well as two other directors, Shiv Priya and Ajay Kumar, by the Delhi Police's Economic Offences Wing (EOW) in an alleged criminal case involving cheating.

In 2016, Amrapali had even announced gifting each member of the cricket team with an exquisitely designed independent villa at its Amrapali Dream Valley Project at Noida Extension worth Rs 9 crore after India’s victory in the World Cup in 2011. While Dhoni was presented with a villa worth Rs 1 crore, the other team members were gifted villas worth Rs 55 lakh each covering an area of 1690 sq ft. A person familiar with the situation said those villas were never built or gifted to the cricketers.