New Delhi: The probe panel set up by the HRD ministry to inquire Dalit scholar Rohith Vemula's suicide has given a clean chit to the minister Smriti Irani.
The significant development came days before the cabinet reshuffle in the NDA.
The two-member fact finding team, while slamming the Hyderabad University administration for casually handling the sensitive issue, said that the university was insensitive in dealing with the situation.
"The administration also downplayed the gravity of the situation despite a letter wrote by Rohith to VC - expressing his concern," the report, which is reportedly submitted on January 22, said.
"The University should have taken initiative when Rohith wrote VC asking for poison and rope to Dalit students who enter the university. There was trust deficit between the students and Hyderabad university officials.
Rohith's suicide had turned into a political firestorm, which forced Irani to form a panel to examine the ground realities.
Rohith committed suicide 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.
His stipend of Rs 25,000 had been stopped as well.
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