PIL against revenue minister

CHENNAI: Three years after the state assembly elections, a PIL wants the Madras high court to direct the chief electoral officer to take action against revenue minister B V Ramana for filing a false affidavit along with his nomination papers in 2011.
In the PIL, K M Balaji said Ramana had suppressed facts about his first marriage. "Without solemnizing legal marriage with his present wife, he had disclosed her name as the legally wedded wife to the returning officer," he said.Ramana was married to one B Lalitha and had two children. However, in the affidavit, he mentioned R Latha as his wife and a girl as his dependent child. He did not mention the name of the children from his first marriage as dependants, Balaji said.
According to the provisions of the Representation of the People Act, 1951, filing a false affidavit voluntarily was an offence carrying an imprisonment of six-months or fine. The matter was adjourned to be heard after HC's summer vacation.