A Gurugram court has summoned Ramesh Sanka, former Chief Executive Officer of Ireo Private Ltd in a defamation case. Chief Judicial Magistrate Vikrant passed the order stating summons be issued to Ramesh Sanka for April 2, 2024.
Ireo Private Ltd had filed a criminal complaint under Sections 499, 500, and 501 of the Indian Penal Code through Advocate M. K. Dang. The complainant alleged that Ramesh Sanka, who was CEO of the company from July 3, 2014 to December 28, 2016, had spread highly defamatory, baseless and false propaganda against the company in order to illegally extort money from them.
The complaint asserted that the accused started making statements and circulating WhatsApp messages which are highly objectionable, defamatory, derogatory, harmful, abusive, insulting and libelous false stories through the internet, social media and print media. It added that Sanka had taken Rs 7,98,56,450 from the company but hasn’t returned it.
Furthermore, it asserted that the circulated statements and messages by Ramesh Sanka are causing a huge loss, injury and defamation to the company. It mentioned that the accused is generating more and more defamatory messages and is broadcasting, circulating them on a regular basis.
Claiming that there are sufficient materials available on record to suspect commission of offence punishable under Section 500 IPC by accused Ramesh Sanka, the complainant urged summons be issued to Ramesh Sanka to face trial under Section 500 of the Indian Penal Code. Considering the submissions, the court issued summons to Ramesh Sanka for April 2, 2024.
Last year, Ramesh Sanka had been arrested by the Haryana Police in a case related to stealing of documents and criminal breach of trust. The Punjab and Haryana High Court had refused to grant him anticipatory bail, on the grounds of grave and serious nature of allegations, including, cheating and extorting money. The court observed that the investigation was at a nascent stage and it could not be proceeded further until or unless the petitioner were taken into custody.