{"id":42149,"date":"2024-05-03T15:25:50","date_gmt":"2024-05-03T15:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/03\/rohith-vemula-not-a-dalit-says-police-in-closure-report\/"},"modified":"2024-05-03T15:25:50","modified_gmt":"2024-05-03T15:25:50","slug":"rohith-vemula-not-a-dalit-says-police-in-closure-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/03\/rohith-vemula-not-a-dalit-says-police-in-closure-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Rohith Vemula not a Dalit, says police in closure report"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1335\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/img.etimg.com\/photo\/msid-109822715,imgsize-122674.cms?resize=1600,1335&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Rohith Vemula not a Dalit, says police in closure report\" title=\"Rohith Vemula not a Dalit, says police in closure report\" \/><\/div>\n<div data-brcount=\"10\">Police have filed a closure report before a local court following a probe into the death of Rohith Vemula, a student of <a data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/university-of-hyderabad\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">University of Hyderabad<\/a>, claiming he was not a Dalit and died by suicide as he feared that his &#8220;real identity&#8221; would be discovered. The <a data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/cyberabad-police\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cyberabad police<\/a>, who investigated the case informed the court that <a data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/rohith-vemula\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rohith Vemula<\/a> did not belong to Scheduled Caste and that he was aware of it. <\/p>\n<p><!--\/article_liveblog.cms?msid=107107653potime:2-->Vemula died by suicide in 2016. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In addition to this, the deceased himself was aware that he did not belong to Scheduled Caste and that his mother got him a <a data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/sc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SC<\/a> certificate. This could be one of the constant fears as the exposure of the same would result in a loss of his academic degrees that he earned over the years and be compelled to face prosecution,&#8221; the report said. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The deceased had multiple issues worrying him which could have driven him to commit suicide,&#8221; it said. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Despite best efforts, no evidence could be found to establish that the actions of the accused have driven the deceased to commit suicide,&#8221; it said. <\/p>\n<p>The then UoH vice-chancellor Appa Rao Podile and incumbent Haryana Governor Bandaru Dattatreya were among the accused.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/india\/rohith-vemula-not-a-dalit-says-police-in-closure-report\/articleshow\/109822715.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police have filed a closure report before a local court following a probe into the death of Rohith Vemula, a student of University of Hyderabad, claiming he was not a Dalit and died by suicide as he feared that his &#8220;real identity&#8221; would be discovered. The Cyberabad police, who investigated the case informed the court [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42150,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/img.etimg.com\/photo\/msid-109822715,imgsize-122674.cms","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[602],"tags":[17942,43715,43718,6273,61,43716,43712,43711,43713,7208,43714,43717],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42149"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42151,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42149\/revisions\/42151"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}