The National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC) has fired the salvo saying it will direct the Cyberabad Police to file a case under the Prevention of Scheuduled Caste/ Scheduled Cast Atrocities Act (POA) against Union Minister Bandaru Dattatreya and Vice-Chancellor, HCU P Appa Rao, responsible for the PhD scholar's suicide.
“The Telangana police will have to act on atrocity charges pressed against the accused in the PoA case, failing which they will be in violation of constitutional provisions and the law”, NCSC chairman PL Punia has been quoted as saying in Hyderabad.
Meanwhile, a section of the faculty of the university has alleged that the vice chancellor's role is yet to be interrogated despite the NCSC having given the green signal for it, leading the university authorities to suspended two professors, KY Ratnam and Tathagata Sengupta, for supporting the peacefully protests by students.
Quoting minutes of the NCSC meeting, Prashanth Dontha, a friend of Vemula, has said, “The NCSC had instructed the police to go ahead with the investigation – nearly two to three weeks ago – on the basis of the brief submitted by the additional district magistrate of Guntur. Despite this, the police has not questioned the vice chancellor.”
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