Rohith Vemula death case: Doctor exposes Smriti Irani's lie

February 25, 2016

Hyderabad, Feb 25: The duty doctor at the University of Hyderabad health centre today appeared to contradict the claim of HRD Minister Smriti Irani that no doctor was allowed near the body of research scholar Rohith Vemula on the day he had died either to revive him or remove him to hospital.smriti-irani

Dr M Rajshree, the doctor on duty that fateful day when Rohith had allegedly committed suicide on Jan 17, said today she was the one who examined the body and had declared him dead.

She said the body of Rohit was lying on a cot and police had reached 15 minutes after she had gone to the hostel room on the day he had died after she got information at around 7.20 PM that one of the students had attempted suicide.

During a debate in the Lok Sabha yesterday on the controversies surrounding the Hyderabad University and the JNU, Irani had said nobody allowed a doctor near Rohith either to revive him or take him to the hospital.

"Nobody allowed a doctor near him. The police has reported that no one attempt was made to revive this child, not one attempt was made to take him to a doctor. Instead what was done was that his body was used as a political tool, hidden. No police was allowed till 6.30, the next morning. It is not me the Telangana police is saying this," she had said.

Narrating the sequence of events today, Dr Jajshree said she rushed to NRS Hostel after she got information at around 7.20 pm on January 17 that one of the students attempted suicide in one of the rooms.

"The body was rigid and cold. I did the examination of the body. I found the body on a cot. The body with protruding tongue was rigid and cold. I checked for BP, for heartbeat. Then I came to the conclusion that he was dead. His body was cold. "It took 10 to 15 minutes. Then I declared him dead and informed the security officer. I saw police personnel 10 or 15 minutes after I reached the spot " Rajshree told PTI.

She also said she was not prevented from examining the body by anyone.
Rohit Vemula's suicide triggered a massive outrage and opposition parties launched a scathing attack on the Central Government and demanded action against Union Labour Minister Bandaru Dattatreya, whose letters to Irani, were blamed for Rohith's suicide, and Irani herself. The HRD Ministry appointed a judicial commission to look into the issue.

"The police started Panchanama. They checked the laptop and phone and collected suicide note. Rigor mortis of a body starts only after two hours. That is the minimum time for a body to stiffen. That's what I told the police that it the death occurred before two hours," she said.

When contacted, Dr Ravindra Kumar, Chief Medical Officer, said the duty doctor submitted a report in which he was declared dead.

Comments

IBRAHIM.HUSSAIN
 - 
Friday, 26 Feb 2016

Now it is high time for this Nachne Walee Gaane Walee Ms. Smriti Irani to quit as HRD minister without any loss of time. I saw the loksabha and Rajya Sabha proceedings, she was shouting against Ms. Mayavati and Rahul Gandhi. The way she was behaving in the parliament that she is an exceptional to all minister. Poor Modi was calm and quite don't speak anything. I believe that Vemula's death is not suicide and doubts about the police killing by hanging may be. The doctor describes the dead body position. The lie meted out by HRD minister no doctor attended Vemula is highly deplorable.

Dear Modi, you can now strip her out of your cabinet because there are evidence that she is incapable for that ministry and dancing to the tunes of ABVP/Nagpur office. Will you overcome with the ABVP/Nagpur dictates?????

IBRAHIM.HUSSAIN
 - 
Friday, 26 Feb 2016

Now it is high time for this Nachne Walee Gaane Walee Ms. Smriti Irani to quit as HRD minister without any loss of time. I saw the loksabha and Rajya Sabha proceedings, she was shouting against Ms. Mayavati and Rahul Gandhi. The way she was behaving in the parliament that she is an exceptional to all minister. Poor Modi was calm and quite don't speak anything. I believe that Vemula's death is not suicide and doubts about the police killing by hanging may be. The doctor describes the dead body position. The lie meted out by HRD minister no doctor attended Vemula is highly deplorable.

Dear Modi, you can now strip her out of your cabinet because there are evidence that she is incapable for that ministry and dancing to the tunes of ABVP/Nagpur office. Will you overcome with the ABVP/Nagpur dictates?????

Suhaib
 - 
Friday, 26 Feb 2016

Did anyone notice about smriti Irani mentioning about Arnab Goswami in her speech in parliament. She was quoting about authentic sources from JNU. She said the report was not Created by bjp or her or Arnab Goswami. It's an authentic source. So it only means Arnab is a bjp based member and he reports only what bjp orders him to do.

Jai
 - 
Friday, 26 Feb 2016

She quoted the police report submitted to her. They are facts offcourse the doctor on duty will try to defend himself. I think the court should intervene and confirm if the police is wrong or the doctor in question.

Bhavya Shree
 - 
Friday, 26 Feb 2016

why cant doctor lie, if we cant trust smrithi irani in the same way we cant trust doctor also, fake doctor appointed by congress.

Kalndar
 - 
Thursday, 25 Feb 2016

This is not her first time lieing, her qualification also published fake , always lie...

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