Striking students have demanded Rs 50 lakh
Striking students have demanded Rs 50 lakh
The Hyderabad Central University on Saturday announced an ex-gratia of '8 lakh to the family of dalit research scholar Rohith Vemula Chakravarti who committed suicide.
A group of seven students, on an indefinite hungerstrike for the past three days, have asked for '50 lakh compensation for Rohith’s family.
The announcement came a day after the university authorities revoked the suspension of four students against whom the action had been taken along with Rohith for allegedly assaulting an ABVP leader in August 2015. “The University of Hyderabad has announced an ex-gratia of '8 lakh to the bereaved family of Rohith Vemula Chakravarti,” HCU said.
The agitating students had Thursday rejected the withdrawal of suspension against the four research scholars, terming the HCU decision as an “illegitimate circular”. “At a time when the legitimacy of Prof Appa Rao to continue as the vice-chancellor is in question, without attending to the protesting students, who are on indefinite hunger strike, the absconding VC and executive committee met Friday (not in the campus) and issued a circular.
“We outrightly reject this illegitimate circular since it came through a committee headed by the VC, who in our opinion is not the legitimate VC anymore,” the joint action committee for social justice had alleged on Thursday.
