Rohith Vemula suicide : Police affidavit counters ABVP leader's claim
Vemula, a suspended research scholar of the Hyderabad Central Univerity, had committed suicide on the campus last Sunday.
He was suspended with four other students for the alleged assault on the night of August 3, 2015.
Police have told the court in an affidavit that Kumar had only suffered minor injuries.The police have also appealed in the court to dismiss Kumar's plea. The case is listed for hearing later this month.
Kumar had alleged he was assaulted and ended up having appendicitis surgery. The police say his surgery "had nothing to do with alleged assault." Despite the police report, the university authorities went ahead and suspended Vemula and his companions.
Kumar claimed in a Facebook post that Vemula and his friends launched a serious assault on him that he was hospitalised. Medical reports state that he was admitted the next morning but stayed on to get himself operated for appendicitis.
In December, Mr Vemula and four others were suspended. He was found hanging in his room a month later on January 18.
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