The Human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry has maintained silence over the findings of an enquiry commission set up to probe the suicide of Rohith Vemula.
The panel was reported to have concluded that Vemula, , a Hyderabad University Dalit scholar, ended his life for personal reasons.
"His (Vemula) suicide note shows that he had his own problems. He was feeling frustrated for reasons best known to him. He wrote that there was no urgency for understanding love, pain, life and death but he was rushing after them. It indicates that he was not happy with the activities going around him. He also wrote that he was all alone from childhood and was an unappreciated man. He did not blame anybody for his suicide," the panel noted.
The one-man commission headed by a former judge of the Allahabad High Court, Justice A K Roopanwal, has reportedly concluded that there was no political pressure on the university administration to take action against Vemula, giving a clean chit to Union Ministers Smriti Irani and Bandaru Dattatreya.
The commission has also reportedly stated that Vemula was not a Dalit as his mother Radhika "branded" herself as a member of the Mala community and managed to obtain a Scheduled Caste certificate from a Corporator, Uppalapati Danamma, with whom she stayed for more than a year.
"The evidence on record shows that she belongs to Vaddera Community and, therefore, the Scheduled Caste certificate issued to Rohith Vemula cannot be said to be a genuine one and he was not a Scheduled Caste person," the commission has reportedly noted.
The commission has reportedly given a clean chit to vice-chancellor Appa Rao Podile too, justifying the varsity's action against the research scholar and his friends.
The panel has also rejected claims that the university's decision to expel Vemula and his batchmates from the hostel was taken under any political pressure, dismissing the possibility that he could have faced discrimination.
Since the university's decision to suspend Vemula and his batchmates from the hostel was challenged in the High Court of Judicature at Hyderabad, and the matter was pending on the day of his suicide, it could not have been the reason for Vemula killing himself, the inquiry commission reportedly concluded. The publication of the commission's findings in a section of the media has created a flutter in political circles.
"We do not know anything about the report and its findings. The report was submitted to the ministry in a sealed envelop. We do not know how the contents of the report were leaked to a newspaper," a senior HRD Ministry official told DH. The report was submitted to the ministry in August.
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The Human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry has maintained silence over the findings of an enquiry commission set up to probe the suicide of Rohith Vemula.
The panel was reported to have concluded that Vemula, , a Hyderabad University Dalit scholar, ended his life for personal reasons.
"His (Vemula) suicide note shows that he had his own problems. He was feeling frustrated for reasons best known to him. He wrote that there was no urgency for understanding love, pain, life and death but he was rushing after them. It indicates that he was not happy with the activities going around him. He also wrote that he was all alone from childhood and was an unappreciated man. He did not blame anybody for his suicide,” the panel noted.
The one-man commission headed by a former judge of the Allahabad High Court, Justice A K Roopanwal, has reportedly concluded that there was no political pressure on the university administration to take action against Vemula, giving a clean chit to Union Ministers Smriti Irani and Bandaru Dattatreya.
The commission has also reportedly stated that Vemula was not a Dalit as his mother Radhika "branded” herself as a member of the Mala community and managed to obtain a Scheduled Caste certificate from a Corporator, Uppalapati Danamma, with whom she stayed for more than a year.
"The evidence on record shows that she belongs to Vaddera Community and, therefore, the Scheduled Caste certificate issued to Rohith Vemula cannot be said to be a genuine one and he was not a Scheduled Caste person,” the commission has reportedly noted.
The commission has reportedly given a clean chit to vice-chancellor Appa Rao Podile too, justifying the varsity’s action against the research scholar and his friends.
The panel has also rejected claims that the university’s decision to expel Vemula and his batchmates from the hostel was taken under any political pressure, dismissing the possibility that he could have faced discrimination.
Since the university’s decision to suspend Vemula and his batchmates from the hostel was challenged in the High Court of Judicature at Hyderabad, and the matter was pending on the day of his suicide, it could not have been the reason for Vemula killing himself, the inquiry commission reportedly concluded. The publication of the commission’s findings in a section of the media has created a flutter in political circles.
"We do not know anything about the report and its findings. The report was submitted to the ministry in a sealed envelop. We do not know how the contents of the report were leaked to a newspaper,” a senior HRD Ministry official told DH. The report was submitted to the ministry in August.
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The panel was reported to have concluded that Vemula, , a Hyderabad University Dalit scholar, ended his life for personal reasons.
"His (Vemula) suicide note shows that he had his own problems. He was feeling frustrated for reasons best known to him. He wrote that there was no urgency for understanding love, pain, life and death but he was rushing after them. It indicates that he was not happy with the activities going around him. He also wrote that he was all alone from childhood and was an unappreciated man. He did not blame anybody for his suicide," the panel noted.
The one-man commission headed by a former judge of the Allahabad High Court, Justice A K Roopanwal, has reportedly concluded that there was no political pressure on the university administration to take action against Vemula, giving a clean chit to Union Ministers Smriti Irani and Bandaru Dattatreya.
The commission has also reportedly stated that Vemula was not a Dalit as his mother Radhika "branded" herself as a member of the Mala community and managed to obtain a Scheduled Caste certificate from a Corporator, Uppalapati Danamma, with whom she stayed for more than a year.
"The evidence on record shows that she belongs to Vaddera Community and, therefore, the Scheduled Caste certificate issued to Rohith Vemula cannot be said to be a genuine one and he was not a Scheduled Caste person," the commission has reportedly noted.
The commission has reportedly given a clean chit to vice-chancellor Appa Rao Podile too, justifying the varsity's action against the research scholar and his friends.
The panel has also rejected claims that the university's decision to expel Vemula and his batchmates from the hostel was taken under any political pressure, dismissing the possibility that he could have faced discrimination.
Since the university's decision to suspend Vemula and his batchmates from the hostel was challenged in the High Court of Judicature at Hyderabad, and the matter was pending on the day of his suicide, it could not have been the reason for Vemula killing himself, the inquiry commission reportedly concluded. The publication of the commission's findings in a section of the media has created a flutter in political circles.
"We do not know anything about the report and its findings. The report was submitted to the ministry in a sealed envelop. We do not know how the contents of the report were leaked to a newspaper," a senior HRD Ministry official told DH. The report was submitted to the ministry in August.
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The Human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry has maintained silence over the findings of an enquiry commission set up to probe the suicide of Rohith Vemula.The panel was reported to have concluded that Vemula, , a Hyderabad University Dalit scholar, ended his life for personal reasons.
"His (Vemula) suicide note shows that he had his own problems. He was feeling frustrated for reasons best known to him. He wrote that there was no urgency for understanding love, pain, life and death but he was rushing after them. It indicates that he was not happy with the activities going around him. He also wrote that he was all alone from childhood and was an unappreciated man. He did not blame anybody for his suicide,” the panel noted.
The one-man commission headed by a former judge of the Allahabad High Court, Justice A K Roopanwal, has reportedly concluded that there was no political pressure on the university administration to take action against Vemula, giving a clean chit to Union Ministers Smriti Irani and Bandaru Dattatreya.
The commission has also reportedly stated that Vemula was not a Dalit as his mother Radhika "branded” herself as a member of the Mala community and managed to obtain a Scheduled Caste certificate from a Corporator, Uppalapati Danamma, with whom she stayed for more than a year.
"The evidence on record shows that she belongs to Vaddera Community and, therefore, the Scheduled Caste certificate issued to Rohith Vemula cannot be said to be a genuine one and he was not a Scheduled Caste person,” the commission has reportedly noted.
The commission has reportedly given a clean chit to vice-chancellor Appa Rao Podile too, justifying the varsity’s action against the research scholar and his friends.
The panel has also rejected claims that the university’s decision to expel Vemula and his batchmates from the hostel was taken under any political pressure, dismissing the possibility that he could have faced discrimination.
Since the university’s decision to suspend Vemula and his batchmates from the hostel was challenged in the High Court of Judicature at Hyderabad, and the matter was pending on the day of his suicide, it could not have been the reason for Vemula killing himself, the inquiry commission reportedly concluded. The publication of the commission’s findings in a section of the media has created a flutter in political circles.
"We do not know anything about the report and its findings. The report was submitted to the ministry in a sealed envelop. We do not know how the contents of the report were leaked to a newspaper,” a senior HRD Ministry official told DH. The report was submitted to the ministry in August.
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