Rohith Vemula Didn’t Kill Self Over University Action: Inquiry Commission Report

Rohith Vemula was a Ph.D. student at the University of Hyderabad. He was a student activist of the Ambedkar Students' Association (ASA) who committed suicide on 17 January 2016. (Image: AP/File)

The Roopanwal Commission was formed after Rohith Vemula killed himself in the university on January 17, 2016. (Image: PTI/File)

New Delhi: On Tuesday, the Ashok Kumar Roopanwal Commission report, related with Rohith Vemula, was made public. The commission, reportedly, claimed that Rohith was unhappy with 'worldly affairs' and his own problems, which led him to suicide. (Image: PTI/File)

Rohith Vemula, research scholar in the University of Hyderabad committed suicide of his own volition and the varsity's act of expelling him and four other students from the hostel did not become a trigger for him to end his life, Roopanwal Commission reportedly said.