The New Indian Express ·
Madras HC denies relief to Sri Lankan man booked for voting in TN polls
MADURAI: The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court recently denied relief to a former Tamil Nadu man with Sri Lankan Citizenship seeking permission to return to Lanka, in view of a case registered against him for voting in the recent assembly elections in Tamil Nadu.
Justice L Victoria Gowri passed the order on a petition filed by one Jeya Ananthan, who was born in Tirunelveli and later moved to Sri Lanka in 2003 to manage his father's business. Thereafter, he acquired Sri Lankan Citizenship and settled in Colombo with his wife and child.
When he visited Tamil Nadu on account of his mother's surgery in April this year, he came to know that his name was still on the electoral roll and therefore cast his vote in the assembly elections.
