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Rohith Vemula suicide : Police affidavit counters ABVP leader's claim

Rohith Vemula suicide : Police affidavit counters ABVP leader's claim

| | 23 Jan 2016, 05:03 pm
Hyderabad, Jan 23 (IBNS) The Hyderabad police had filed an affidavit in the High Court in October last year contesting the claim of ABVP student leader Susheel Kumar that Rohith Vemula and his companions had attacked him in August leading to serious injuries and hospitalisation, media reports said.

Vemula, a suspended research scholar of the Hyderabad Central Univerity, had committed suicide on the campus last Sunday.

 He was suspended with four other students for the alleged assault on the night of August 3, 2015. 

Police have told the court in an affidavit that Kumar had only suffered minor injuries.The police have also appealed in the court to dismiss  Kumar's plea. The case is listed for hearing later this month.
 
 Kumar had alleged he was assaulted and ended up having appendicitis surgery. The police say his surgery "had nothing to do with alleged assault." Despite the police report, the university authorities went ahead and suspended  Vemula and his companions.
 
 Kumar claimed in a Facebook post that  Vemula and his friends launched a serious assault on him that he was hospitalised. Medical reports state that he was admitted the next morning but stayed on to get himself operated for appendicitis. 

In December, Mr Vemula and four others were suspended. He was found hanging in his room a month later on January 18.

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