HCU suicide: Smriti Irani forms fact finding team but says Govt won't intervene
A two-member fact finding team formed by HRD ministry will leave for Hyderabad to look into the case.
New Delhi: Human Resource Development (HRD) ministry has constituted a two-member fact finding team to look into the matter related to the suicide of a research scholar in Hyderabad Central University.
According to official sources, the team led by Shakila T Shamsu, OSD in the ministry, and comprising another Deputy Secretary level officer Surat Singh, will go to Hyderabad today to look into the entire matter and submit the report to the HRD ministry.
Union Minister for Human Resource Development, Smriti Irani has flatly refused any intervention by the government in the suicide of a Dalit scholar from the Hyderabad University and confirmed that a two-member team has been sent to the varsity from the ministry to take stock of the situation.
"In a time of grief like this, I express my condolences to the family who lost their son. We have sent a two-member team from the ministry who will apprise us of the situation in the university. Everyone knows that in Central Universities, the administrative control belongs only to the varsity. The government has no role to play," Irani said.
She asserted that she will not make any 'political' statement at the moment, since law and order was a subject of the state.
"Will have to wait until the reports comes, will be inappropriate to say anything until then," Irani added.
The body of V Rohith, a Dalit PhD scholar who was found hanging at the Central University's hostel room in the campus yesterday, was sent for post mortem amid protests from fellow students this morning.
Rohith was among the five research scholars who were suspended by Hyderabad Central University (HCU) in August last year and also one of the accused in the case of assault on a student leader.
The suspension was revoked later. The five research scholars were suspended from the hostel for rest of their study period for allegedly attacking an ABVP leader.
Meanwhile, some student unions have called for an educational institutions bandh today.