Rohit Vemula Case: Hours After Closure Report, Telangana Police Promises 'Further Investigation'

Telangana DGP Ravi Gupta said the decision was taken after doubts had been expressed by the mother of Vemula and others, prompting them to carry out further investigation.

The Wire Staff

Telangana DGP Ravi Gupta said the decision was taken after doubts had been expressed by the mother of Vemula and others, prompting them to carry out further investigation.

rohit vemula case hours after closure report telangana police promises further investigation

Rohith Vemula. Credit: Facebook

New Delhi: Hours after it came to light that the Telangana Police had filed a closure report in the case involving the death of University of Hyderabad PhD scholar Rohith Vemula who died by suicide in January 2016, state police Ravi Gupta chief said that a petition will be filed in the court seeking permission for further investigation into the case.

Gupta said the decision was taken after doubts had been expressed by the mother of Vemula and others, prompting to carry out further investigation.

In the morning, @thenewsminute broke the story on the police closure report in Rohith Vemula case. Telangana DGP has reacted now. He says they will ask permission for further investigation. Which means the current report may not be used.
— Dhanya Rajendran (@dhanyarajendran) May 3, 2024

There has been outrage ever since it came to light that the closure report not only gave a clean chit to all the accused but also asserted that Rohith was not a Dalit.

Earlier in the day on Friday, May 3, it had come to light the Telangana police had filed a closure report in the case and absolved the then Secunderabad MP Bandaru Dattatreya, Member of Legislative Council N Ramachander Rao, and vice chancellor Appa Rao, ABVP leaders and minister for women and child development Smriti Irani.

The report had said that Rohith did not belong to the Scheduled Caste category and speculated that he died by suicide fearing that his “real caste identity” would be discovered. It had also alleged that the caste certificates of the family were forged without providing any evidence for the same. Interestingly, the report comes four months after the Congress government came into power in Telangana.

The report has been released just 10 days before Telangana votes in the Lok Sabha polls on May 13. Congress had extended support to the ‘Justice for Vemula campaign’ in 2016 with Congress leader Rahul Gandhi even that a law named Rohith Vemula Act would be implemented to “safeguard the right to education and dignity” for the Scheduled Castes (SC), Scheduled Tribes (ST), Other Backward Classes (OBC) and minorities. In fact, during his recent Bharat Jodo Yatra, he had invited Rohith’s mother Radhika Vemula to join the Congress.

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