Dalit research scholar "suicide" rattles Hyderabad university campus

 

All five research scholars belonged to Ambedkar Students Association (ASA) and they were protesting and with other unions like SFI, Dalit Students Union and National Students Association were on a relay hunger strike.

Students began a protest with Rohit's body after his hanging and later eight students were arrested. 

 Rohit's friends said he was shattered when the Vice Chancellor denied him an appointment though he was out in the open for days living in a tent after they were banned in the varsity hostel.

Media reports in NDTV said while Rohit was cleared in the case of assault after a probe, union minister Bandaru Dattatreya had written to Education Minister Smriti Irani for action holding that the university remained a mute spectator to the attack on a student and how it has "become a den of casteist, extremist and anti-national politics."

In December, they were barred from the hostel and other common areas.