A day after Union HRD Minister Smriti Irani had claimed that no medical assistance was provided to Dalit scholar Rohith Vemula, the Andhra Pradesh government report issued by Guntur tehsildar states that Rohith was not a Dalit. This report has been also been quoted by the Telangana police.

Also, earlier reports claim that the Telangana Police did face resistance during the probe. Police have also claimed that an unruly mob of students did not allow the police to take out Vemula's body in order to further the investigation.

During a debate on Wednesday, a visibly emotional Irani lashed out at the opposition for playing politics over the dead body of a student. She had said that nobody even allowed a doctor near Vemula either to revive him or take him to the hospital for medical attention.

However, Dr. Rajashree P the Chief Medical Officer, University of Hyderabad, the doctor who was on duty at the university's health centre refuted all her claims.



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