Citizens for Justice and Peace
Hyd scholar suicide: `RSS men’ thrash protesting students
25-Jan-2016
Jan 25 2016 : The Times of India (Mumbai) Mumbai: TNN College students protesting against the suicide of Hyderabad Dalit scholar Rohith Vemula in Dharavi claimed they were beaten up by RSS members on Sunday. A mob gheroed the local police station in the evening. According to a student, 200 of them had taken out…
Rohith family rejects relief
24-Jan-2016
Jan 24, 2016 | PTI| Hyderabad Agitating students term Modi’s remarks ‘insulting’ Agitating students of Hyderabad central Univers-ity on Saturday termed as “insulting” Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s remarks over the suicide of dalit scholar Rohith Vemula even as the student’s distraught family rejected the Rs 8 lakh ex-gratia relief offered by the institution. The students…
Hyderabad scholar death: HRD to set up judicial commission on suicide
23-Jan-2016
Jan 23, 2016 – Namrata Biji Ahuja and Nitin Mahajan | New Delhi State government confirms Rohith was a dalit Trouble is brewing for the Narendra Modi government as the Telangana government report sent to the Centre has reaffirmed that the deceased student, who committed suicide at Hyderabad Central University, was a dalit and the…
Pune: Son was burnt alive after he said he was Hindu, alleges teen’s father
23-Jan-2016
Jan 23, 2016 | • pune Sawan sustained severe burns when accused set him ablaze with petrol. Pune: Days after a 17-year-old ragpicker was allegedly murdered by three persons here after setting him afire, his father and some right-wing activists claimed he was killed because he was a ‘Hindu’ and the brutality meted out to…
Case on VC for harassing dalit student
23-Jan-2016
Jan 23, 2016 – Sanjay Bohra | • Jaipur Close on the heels of Hyderabad University scholar Rohith Vemula’s suicide, yet another dalit student, this time in Rajasthan, has complained of harassment by the vice-chancellor and some senior professors. On the direction of a local court, the police has registered a case against them for…
Linking caste politics and political suicides
22-Jan-2016
Friday, 22 January 2016 | Priyadarshi Dutta | in Edit Rohith Vemula was only the latest in a long line of Hyderabad college students who committed suicide. Yet, the politicisation of his death has less to do with this tragedy and more to do with his Dalit activism The suicide of 26-year old Rohith Chakravarthi…
Rohith Vemula’s suicide exposes caste fault lines in Hyderabad University
22-Jan-2016
Kuruma Sangham president Y Mallesh said that Dattatreya was being unnecessarily targeted over Rohith’s suicide. Written by Sreenivas Janyala | Hyderabad | Published:January 22, 2016 2:17 am The suicide of Rohith Vemula is beginning to fuel caste hostilities on the campus. After contending that Rohith was not an SC — a claim refuted by his…
Pune: Teenager’s father alleges his son was burnt alive after he said he was Hindu
22-Jan-2016
On Thursday, members of Rathod’s Banjara community and Hindutva groups met senior police officers and threatened to launch an agitation on January 27 over the death. Written by Chandan Haygunde | Pune | Updated: January 22, 2016 10:49 am The death of a teenager who was set on fire by three people, including two brothers,…
ABVP leader wants fair probe, denies he lied about assault
21-Jan-2016
Hyderabad, Jan 21 (PTI): Nandanam Susheel Kumar, the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad leader who has been accused of abetting the suicide of Dalit research scholar Rohith Vemula, on Thursday demanded a “fair” inquiry and rejected claims that he had lied about being assaulted by Rohit and other members of Ambedkar Students’ Association (ASA) at Hyderabad…
Dalit student death:ABVP leader demands fair probe, denies he lied about assault
21-Jan-2016
Hyderabad, Jan 21, 2016, (PTI) ABVP leader Nandanam Susheel Kumar, who has been accused of abetting suicide of dalit research scholar Rohith Vemula, today demanded a “fair” inquiry and rejected claims that he had lied about being assaulted by Rohith and other members Ambedkar Students’ Association (ASA) at Hyderabad University. “Reasons for Rohit Vemula’s suicide…