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The Telangana High Court on Monday upheld the Union government’s decision to revoke Indian citizenship Chennamaneni RameshThis was reported by a former MLA of the Bharat Rashtra Samithi Bar and sofa.

In November 2019, the Union Home Ministry revoked Ramesh’s Indian citizenship for allegedly concealing facts about his visits abroad in the year prior to his application. According to the Citizenship Act, 1955, a person applying for Indian citizenship must be present in India at least twelve months before the date of application.

The action was based on a complaint by Congress leader Adi Srinivas, who defeated Ramesh in the 2009 assembly elections in undivided Andhra Pradesh.

Srinivas stated that Ramesh had retained his German citizenship and had traveled to Germany in the year preceding the date of his application for Indian citizenship.

On Monday, Justice B. Vijaysen Reddy of the Supreme Court was speaking imposed a fine of Rs 30 lakh on Ramesh for suppressing facts relating to his German citizenship, reported The Hindu.

Of the total, the court ordered that Rs 25 lakh be paid to Srinivas, while the remaining Rs 5 lakh would be paid to the Telangana State Legal Services Authority.

Reddy said Ramesh’s actions had denied justice to genuine Indian citizens since 2009 election competitionreported The times of India.

Ramesh had acquired Indian citizenship in 2009. In the same year, he was elected for the first time from Vemulawada seats on a Telugu Desam party ticket.

He won the by-election to the seat in 2010 on a Bharat Rashtra Samithi (formerly Telangana Rashtra Samithi) ticket and retained the constituency in the 2014 and 2019 Assembly polls.

Srinivas won the Vemulawada seat in the 2023 Telangana Assembly elections, defeating Bharat Rashtra Samithi nominee Chalimeda Laxmi Narasimha Rao.