Hyderabad: A case has been registered against Union Minister Bandaru Dattatreya and vice chancellor of the Hyderabad Central University in connection with the suicide case of PhD scholar Vemula Rohith.
The case has been registered under the SC/ST Act. Students protesting after the death of Rohith had earlier demanded filing of the case, alleging that he had written to the Union HRD Ministry seeking action against Rohith and other scholars.
Rohith, was one of the five Dalit scholars, who was expelled by the university in 2015 for allegedly attacking a student activist belonging to Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) in August. Sources said, he was doing his PhD in science technology and society studies for the past two years.
Then the university ordered a probe and the final decision by the proctorial board (disciplinary authority of the Institute) led to the expulsion of Rohith along with four others.
Since then they were barred from entering the administrative building, hostels, libraries, mess and other common areas, leading to massive protests by students. They later formed a Joint Action Committee for Social Justice (JAC) to fight back against the university's decision.
The action against the students came reportedly after Dattatreya wrote to HRD Minister Smriti Irani after an ABVP activist was manhandled. ABVP had reacted sharply after some students unions protested death sentence given to 1993 blast accused Yakub Memon. It was in the wake of this incident that Dattatreya reportedly took up the matter with the HRD Ministry.
Rohith and other students were protesting on Sunday evening when he managed to enter the NRS hostel, locked himself and took the extreme step.
Comments
0 comment