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Rohit Vemula's mother faked Dalit status alleges Probe
Updated : Oct 6, 2016
The 41-page-report submitted by Justice (retd.) AK Roopanwal Commission, set up by the Ministry of Human Resource Development to probe what led to Hyderabad Central University PhD scholar Rohith Vemula's suicide, has said that Rohith's mother Radhika Vemula "branded" herself as a Dalit to avail benefits of reservation. Vemula’s decision to commit suicide, according to the probe, was wholly his own and not abetted by either the university administration or the government. The report is based on the deposition of over 50 people, a majority of whom were university teachers, officers and staff members. The retired judge met five university students and members of the joint action committee which led the agitation on campus. Roopanwal's report claims that expelling Rohith from the hostel was the 'most reasonable' decision taken by the university, and that it is not caste-based discrimination that led the 26-year-old PhD scholar to suicide, but his own 'personal frustrations'.