Hyderabad: The chief medical officer of Hyderabad Central University has disputed Union HRD Minister Smriti Irani's claim that students prevented doctors from examining Dalit scholar Rohith Vemula after he was found hanging.
CMO Dr Rajashree told CNN-IBN she was the one who declared Rohith dead on January 17th and that she was not stopped by students when she went to the hostel room.
Minister Irani, in her speech in Parliament on Wednesday, said that students hid the body till the next day morning without allowing access to either doctors or the police.
"In fact it was the students took me to the room and kept on requesting me to do something to revive Rohith," Dr Rajashree said.
Students of the University have also released a video footage which showed policemen near Rohith's body which was lying on the floor in the hostel room.
The CMO said Rohith was already dead for two hours by the time she reached the hostel around 7.30pm on January 17. She said she checked his vitals for ten minutes before declaring him dead.
Dr Jayashree also said police arrived at the hostel in the next few minutes and that after completing the formalities took away the body.
All these statements contradict what Irani, referring to a Telangana police report, had given in a reply to Opposition charges against her ministry in the Lok Sabha
"Nobody allowed a doctor near this child, to revive this child, to take him to the hospital, nobody allowed a doctor near him. The police have reported that not one attempt was made to revive this child, not one attempt was made to take him to the doctor. Instead, his body was used as a political tool, hidden, no police was allowed till 6:30 the next morning," she had said.
The CMO said it was incorrect of Irani to say that no doctor saw Rohith's body till the next day.
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