Hyderabad: In a latest development in Rohith Vemula suicide case, a police report accessed by CNN-IBN has said that he did not belong to any Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe. The police report says that certified copies collected from Irrigation Department in Hyderabad claims Vemula's caste as Vaddera (OBC) and not Dalit.
The opposition parties are accusing HRD Minister Smriti Irani for crushing the voice of students and civil society over Vemula's suicide case.
During a debate in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday on the controversies surrounding the Hyderabad University, Irani had said nobody allowed a doctor near Vemula either to revive him or take him to the hospital.
"Nobody allowed a doctor near him. The police has reported that not one attempt was made to revive this child, not one attempt was made to take him to a doctor. Instead what was done was that his body was used as a political tool, hidden. No police was allowed till 6.30, the next morning. It is not me the Telangana police is saying this," she had said.
However, the duty doctor at the university's health centre had on Thursday contradicted the claim of the HRD Minister.
CMO Dr Rajashree told CNN-IBN that she was not stopped by students when she went to the hostel room. "In fact it was the students who took me to the room and kept on requesting me to do something to revive Rohith," Dr Rajashree said.
Hyderabad University scholar Vemula was expelled by the University of Hyderabad in August 2015 for allegedly attacking a student activist belonging to Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP).
He was doing his PhD in science technology and society studies for the past two years.
On January 17, Rohith entered the NRS hostel, locked and hanged himself reportedly after being depressed over his expulsion from the university.
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