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Hyderabad dalit students reject revocation of suspension as stir continues

by IBNS 21 Jan 2016, 08:26 pm

Hyderabad, Jan 22 (IBNS) Rejecting the authority's decision to revoke their suspension, four Dalit students of Hyderabad Central University have demanded the ouster of the vice chancellor.

Media reports said the students  burnt a copy of the circular and demanded arrests in the case of Dalit PhD scholar Rohith Vemula suicide

 After the visit of Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, a delegation of the Janata Dal United (JDU) will visit the university campus on Friday. 

"We can't accept it because Rohith is no longer with us. We had been demanding revocation of suspension when he was alive. We now want arrests to be made, we want the VC to step down," one of the suspended students, Vijay Kumar, told CNN-IBN.

The circular said: "The Council after taking into account the extraordinary situation prevailing in the University, and after discussing the issue in detail, it resolved to terminate the punishment imposed on the students concerned with immediate effect.

Rohith, 26, committed suicide on Sunday by hanging himself in a hostel room, months after he and four other Dalit students were barred from the facility for allegedly attacking an ABVP leader. The five were denied access to all facilities in their campus, except their classrooms and workshops related to their subject of study.