The commission also cited Radhika’s application for her younger son Raja Chaitanya Kumar’s birth certificate in 2014 as evidence to prove that she doesn’t belong to a Dalit community. In that application, Radhika disclosed her caste as Vaddera, a backward class. Hence, the retired judge infers that since Radhika is not Mala, Rohith cannot be Mala either. “The evidence on record shows, that she belongs to Vaddera Community and, therefore, the Scheduled Caste certificate issued to Rohith Vemula cannot be said to be a genuine one and he was not a Scheduled Caste person.”
The one-man judicial commission was constituted on January 28 this year after Rohith Vemula hanged himself in a hostel room in the university campus.
Vemula’s decision to commit suicide, according to the probe, was wholly his own and not abetted by either the university administration or the government.
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