Rohith Vemula Death: HRD Min Rejects RTI Seeking to Share Report

Rohith Vemula, a research scholar at the University of Hyderabad, committed suicide in January 2016. (Photo: PTI)

• The Human Resource Development Ministry has rejected an RTI request that sought to make public a panel’s report on the death of University of Hyderabad research scholar Rohith Vemula.
• Replying to the RTI query, the ministry said that the file concerned was “under submission” and that a copy of the report cannot be provided.
• The HRD Ministry had, in February 2016, appointed a Commission of Inquiry under Justice (retd) Ashok Kumar Roopanwal to look into the events at University of Hyderabad, culminating in Vemula’s death.

(With inputs from PTI)