Rohith Vemula suicide row: HCU V-C, students and others depose before judicial panel

Hyderabad: HCU V-C Appa Rao Podile, who had gone on an indefinite leave following Dalit scholar Rohith Vemula’s suicide, deposed before the one-man judicial commission on Thursday.

Acting V-C M. Periasamy, registrar M. Sudhakar and members of student unions also attended the inquiry commission. Sources said, retired judge Ashok Kumar will be visiting Hyderabad in March again with a questionnaire and take views of all concerned besides interacting with HCU students’ JAC.

His three-day inquiry into the incident ended on Thursday. When contacted, Mr Appa Rao said, “I am not sure whether I could share information since this is a judicial probe.”

Acting V-C told the judge that he took charge a few weeks after the incident. He tried to put forward the views of the suspended students, who felt that the Proctorial Board and the EC were not fair. SFI and other associations alleged that they had been denied entry to depose before the commission.