New Delhi: The HRD Ministry has appointed former Allahabad High Court judge Ashok Kumar Roopanwal to probe circumstances leading to suicide of dalit scholar Rohith Vemula in Hyderabad which led to a massive outrage across the country.


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Senior HRD ministry officials said that Justice (retd) Roopanwal will review the entire sequence of events, the circumstances and establish facts and correctives in connection with the incident.


The one-man judicial commission will submit its report within 3 months, it is learnt.


Earlier, a fact-finding committee constituted by the ministry had submitted its report on the events in the university after which it was decided that a judicial commission will be set up to look into the matter.