MLA ASKED TO PROVE CITIZENSHIP

The Telangana High Court directed TRS Vemulavada legislator Dr Ch. Ramesh to produce an official and authentic document issued by the German authorities which says that he was not a citizen of Germany.

Dealing with the plea of Dr Ramesh for staying a Union home ministry’s order which cancelled his Indian citizenship, Justice Abhinand Kumar Shavili on Monday directed the petitioner to submit the affidavit and evidence that he has relinquished the German Citizenship and which was also approved by the German government.The judge extended the interim stay, issued earlier by Justice Challa Kodandaram, on the citizenship suspension order of the home ministry against Dr Ramesh by another two weeks.

The Centre informed the court that Dr Ramesh had the German citizenship and had submitted that he had travelled to other countries on the German passport. With that, the judge directed the petitioner to submit the evidence. Ravi Kiran Rao, counsel for Mr Adi Srinivas, petitioner before the Union home ministry, informed the court that Dr Ramesh had concealed crucial information pertaining to his stay in India prior the to elections and that he is still a citizen of Germany though he has contested elections.