Rohith Vemula Suicide: Police Spent Energies on Disproving His Caste, Ignored Letter to V-C Asking for Poison and Rope
Sreenivas Janyala | 5 May 2024 | The Indian Express
The police investigation into the suicide of University of Hyderabad PhD student Rohith Vemula was focused not on investigating the circumstances around his death but on ascertaining his caste, the closure report into the case shows.
The report also suggests that the police made little effort to look into the role of the accused — University of Hyderabad Vice Chancellor P Appa Rao, Secunderabad MP Bandaru Dattatreya, MLC N Ramchender Rao, and Union Minister Smriti Irani. In fact, the police disregarded a letter Rohith had written to the V-C a month before his death asking for poison and a rope, noting in their closure report that “the disappointment and anger must have died down with lapse of time”…