Dalit Students Attempts Suicide

A Class 8 Dalit student attempted suicide in Punjab's Jalandhar after he was allegedly tricked into drinking urine by his classmates and his teacher slapped him for complaining about it, police said today.

A sustained attempt has been on to discredit the Vemula family and in particular, Rohith's mother, Radhika. The machinery of the State has been utilized to "prove" that Rohith was not a Dalit, that his mother had lied, and that a case on grounds of fraud could be made out against her.

Students at University of Hyderabad (UoH) on Friday staged a protest against the report of Justice Ashok Kumar Rupanwala Commission, terming it an attempt to shield two Union ministers and the Vice Chancellor in Dalit research scholar Rohith Vemula's suicide case.

A first year medical student in Lucknow tried committing suicide this morning allegedly frustrated over failing in the Physiology subject for three years in a row. A student of the Chatrapati Sahuji Maharaj Medical University, Uttar Pradesh's biggest and most prestigious collge, Neeraj Kumar took an overdose of sleeping pills.

A Class 8 Dalit student attempted suicide in Punjab's Jalandhar after he was allegedly tricked into drinking urine by his classmates and his teacher slapped him for complaining about it, police said today.

A sustained attempt has been on to discredit the Vemula family and in particular, Rohith's mother, Radhika. The machinery of the State has been utilized to "prove" that Rohith was not a Dalit, that his mother had lied, and that a case on grounds of fraud could be made out against her.

Students at University of Hyderabad (UoH) on Friday staged a protest against the report of Justice Ashok Kumar Rupanwala Commission, terming it an attempt to shield two Union ministers and the Vice Chancellor in Dalit research scholar Rohith Vemula's suicide case.

A first year medical student in Lucknow tried committing suicide this morning allegedly frustrated over failing in the Physiology subject for three years in a row. A student of the Chatrapati Sahuji Maharaj Medical University, Uttar Pradesh's biggest and most prestigious collge, Neeraj Kumar took an overdose of sleeping pills.