PHD student suicides at Hyderabad University

                                             Rohit Vermula(26) a second year PHD student at University of Hyderabad committed suicide on Sunday evening.Rohit was one of the active member of the protest against Yakub Memon. Yakub Memon was a convict of Mumbai serial blast where 256 people were killed. Rohit was also an active member of Students politics in the campus. He was expelled from hostel due to his involvement in an alleged attack on ABPV activist Nandanam Susheel Kumar.

                   He along with ASA (Amberkar Students Association),IIT and some other students organisation were making documentary on Muzaffarnagar riot with the name “Muzaffarnagar abhi baaki hai”.The documentary was opposed by some ABVP activists calling it anti hindu and they disrupted the screening due to which the dispute was started between them. The oppose was turned into some violent actions by both the sides. This incident resulted into expulsion of Rohit Vermula along with four other students from hostel considering their involvement in an attack on Nandanam Sushil Kumar (ABVP activist). The suspended students were then protesting on their expulsion from hostel for 12 days in the campus before Rohit’s suicide. They were sleeping in open in campus area as a part of their protest.

                                    In the suicide note Rohit has mentioned that nobody is the reason behind his suicide but the incident was strongly protested by many students and politicians from all over the country blaming the university as the reason of his suicide. The issue is also turned to caste due to his identity as Dalit and he was also fighting for Dalit rights. But overall the incident is nowhere linked with any religion and their sentiments.