NEW DELHI: A secret intelligence report has claimed that both the grandmother and mother of

, a

research scholar who recently committed suicide, have declared the family's caste as Vaddera, which is a backward caste and not part of the 'Dalit' fold.

In a report forwarded to national security adviser Ajit Doval, the agencies have cited the statement of Rohith's grandmother Raghavamma claiming that both her son (Rohith's father V Mani Kumar) and daughter-in-law (Rohith's mother V Radhika) belong to the Vaddera community. The video clipping of Raghavamma stating this in Telugu is attached with the report.

In yet another pointer to Rohith's caste background, the report cites a request filed by his mother V Radhika on July 2, 2014, for registration of her younger son (Rohith's younger brother) Raja Chaitanya Kumar's birth. A self-declaration filed by her submits that she is a resident of Gurujala village and Mandal and belongs to cast Vaddera. She claims that her younger son, Raja Chaitanya Kumar was born on June 9, 1990, but she had failed to register the birth in the birth register.

“On June 9, 1990, I delivered a child in Gurujala in my own house. As I do not have proper knowledge, I have not informed the birth of the child to the village birth registrar of Gurujala... But my son needed ‘birth certificate’ for admission in school as well as other requirements in future. Therefore I request to register my son Raja Chaitanya Kumar’s ‘date of birth’ as June 9, 1990,” she states in the self-declaration in Telugu, an English translation of which has been cited in the IB report.

V Radhika further claims that the statement is being issued with her consent and that she would be liable for punishment under Section IPC 199 and 200 in case of any misinformation.