A judicial commission set up by the Human Resource Development Ministry to probe the suicide of Hyderabad Central University scholar Rohith Vermula has found that the 26-year-old student did not belong to the Scheduled Caste community, The Indian Express reported on Wednesday. The one-man probe panel headed by former Allahabad High Court judge A K Roopanwal was set up in January by then HRD Minister Smriti Irani to look into the issue.

He submitted his report to the University Grants Commission in the first week of August, according to sources. Roopanwal did not deny submitting ...