NEW DELHI : The Human Resource Development (HRD) ministry on Friday decided to set up a judicial commission to look into the sequence of events leading to the suicide of Rohith Vemula, a dalit scholar at the Hyderabad Central University.
“The fact-finding committee constituted by HRD ministry in the wake of the chain of unfortunate events at the Central University Hyderabad submitted its report to the Ministry on January 22, 2016.
“Based on its observations and findings, the ministry has decided to constitute a judicial commission to review the entire sequence of events and the circumstances and to establish the facts and correctives in the context of the University,” the statement said.
The judicial commission will submit its report within three months, a human resource development ministry statement said.
It said in order to prevent such incidents future, all VCs and senior administrators would be sensitised to reach out to students and there will be “zero tolerance” for any acts of discrimination on campus.
@ Agency report
