New Delhi: A PIL has been moved in Delhi High Court against AAP government’s decision to award a job on compassionate grounds to the brother of Rohith Vemula, a Hyderabad University Dalit scholar who had committed suicide in January.
The petition has challenged the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government’s February 24 decision, notified on March 3, to award a group ‘C’ government job to Rohith’s brother, Vemula Raja Chaithanya Kumar, as well as government accommodation on out of turn basis.
As per the Cabinet, the decision was taken on a representation received from Rohith’s brother seeking support for himself and his family by way of employment. The petition contends that no such representation was received from Rohith's family. The petitioner, advocate Avadh Kaushik, has alleged that the Cabinet decision was “illegal, arbitrary, motivated, discriminatory and unjustifiable.”
