Telangana police on Friday filed a closure report in the death case of Hyderabad University student Rohith Vemula. After years of political controversy surrounding Vemula’s death, police claimed in reports that he was not Dalit and feared his “true identity” would be revealed to the university.
After the submission of the final report in the Rohit Vemula death case on May 3, the BJP said that the student’s suicide did not occur due to any abetment to suicide and that false charges were leveled against the accused. case.
BJP spokesperson Rachna Reddy told ANI, “After a detailed and thorough investigation, the said suicide was not due to any abetment to suicide… The abetment had nothing to do with the then BJP leaders, management… …”
Reddy further added, “We have reservations, specific penal codes and provisions to protect the Scheduled Caste-Scheduled Tribe community from discrimination. But when you feed such false accusations, you are harming those who are actually subject to the said discrimination People. “Please don’t politicize this. Rahul Gandhi politicized it in 2016 and it backfired… Political parties should not anger the already outraged lives and students. “
The report filed by the Telangana police said Rohith Vemula had “several issues that were worrying him” which could have led him to commit suicide, raising the possibility that his death was an abetment case.
“Besides this, the deceased himself also knew that he did not belong to the Scheduled Caste and his mother had given him a Scheduled Caste certificate. This could be one of the concerns that has been raised as exposing the same would cost him years of degree and were forced to face prosecution,” the report said.
The police further claimed that investigation revealed no evidence that the accused – then University of Hawaii Vice-Chancellor Appa Rao Podilai and current Haryana Governor Bandaru Dattatreya – committed suicide by driving the Vemula .
Rohith Vemula committed suicide in 2016, his death sparking a political row between the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party, with Rahul Gandhi quarreling with the central government in Parliament and Smriti Irani, the then federal minister for human rights and development, accused Modi’s cabinet of caste discrimination.
(Based on input from each agency)