HRD ministry today forms committee to look into suicide of a Dalit student of the Hyderabad Central University. A two-member fact finding team will leave for Hyderabad to look into the case.
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Rohit Vemula, a Dalit PhD scholar who was found hanging at the Hyderabad Central University’s hostel room. Human Resource Development (HRD) ministry has constituted a two-member fact finding team to look into the matter related to the suicide of a research scholar in Hyderabad Central University.
According to official sources, the team led by Shakila T Shamsu, OSD in the ministry, and comprising another Deputy Secretary level officer Surat Singh, will go to Hyderabad today to look into the entire matter and submit the report to the HRD ministry.
Rohit Vemula, a Dalit Ph D student of Hyderabad Central University yesterday committed suicide by hanging himself. His suicide has generated outrage among Dalits and other deprived section of society across the country. Rohit from Dalit community with their four other colleagues was removed from the hostel a few days ago.
In protest he had been living in the open with other students. Several other students were with him in the movement.
Vemula Rohit has left a suicide note blaming nobody for this extreme step.
The body of V Rohit, a Dalit PhD scholar who was found hanging at the Central University’s hostel room in the campus yesterday, was sent for post mortem amid protests from fellow students this morning.