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Rohith Vemula suicide: Centre sets up judicial commission for probe, announces Rs 8 lakh ex gratia

In a bid to defuse the raging controversy, the Centre today decided to set up a judicial commission to go into the dalit student’s suicide in Hyderabad University, which announced an ex-gratia payment of Rs.8 lakh to his family but protests continued.

Rohith Vemula suicide: Why did HRD ministry write 4 letters on the 'matter'? Was ABVP leader really injured?

Although the Ministry of Human Resource Development is stoutly denying any hand in the events leading up to the suicide of PhD student Rohith Vemula at Hyderabad Central University, the Ministry sent four fairly detailed letters to the same University where Vemula was a student, asking for details on the "matter" raised by Minister of State Bandaru Dattatreya.