Aadi Srinivas to present evidence against Chennamaneni Ramesh to CID

Government Whip and Vemulawada MLA Aadi Srinivas will visit the Crime Investigation Department (CID) office in Hyderabad on Wednesday to present evidence relating to the fabricated documents Chennamaneni Ramaesh had used to falsely claim he was Indian citizen.

Recently, Telangana High Court had imposed fine of ₹ 30 lakh on Chennamaneni Ramesh, who got elected four times as MLA from Vemulawada, ruling that he had fraudulently claimed Indian citizenship and contested the elections. The HC held that ₹ 25 lakh of the total fine amount should be paid to Adi Srinivas, who lost three times to Ramesh and secured second highest number of votes.

Mr. Adi Srinivas had been claiming for past several years that Mr. Ramesh acquired German citizenship having lived there for long, but contested from Vemulawada Assembly constituency by falsely claiming he was Indian citizen. Following the HC verdict, Mr. Adi Srinivas who won as Vemulawada MLA in 2023 and became Congress Whip, already lodged a complaint with the State police chief to initiate criminal action against Mr. Ramesh as the latter played fraud and deceived everyone by falsely claiming himself as an Indian.

Already, the CID had registered a criminal case and issued a First Information Report based on the MLA’s complaint. The investigators invoked Sections 465, 468 and 471 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), Section 12 of Indian Passport Act 1967, Section 14 of The Foreigners Act 1946 and Section 17 of the Indian Citizenship Act 1955.

Mr. Aadi Srinivas, in his complaint with the DGP, alleged that Mr. Ramesh had stayed only 96 days in India before obtaining the Indian citizenship.

According to Mr. Srinivas, Chennamaneni Ramesh applied for a residential permit on March 26, 2008, stating his intention to establish a spinning mill in Vemulawada, and obtained the permit on March 29, 2008. However, Ramesh reportedly suppressed the fact that he hadn’t resided in India for 12 months.

Quoting the High Court judgment, Mr. Aadi Srinivas stated that Mr. Ramesh committed fraud against the Centre, State government, and the voters of Vemulawada constituency, making him liable for prosecution. “The HC laid Ramesh bare over the fraud he played with our democratic system and election process. He needs to be prosecuted and hence I approached the police to initiate criminal action against him,” he said on Tuesday.