Ques: Who is the head of Judicial Commission set up to probe the suicide of scholar Rohit Vemula?
(a) Justice Mukul Mudgal
(b) Justice Ashok Kumar Roopanwal
(c) Justice Sanjay Mishra
(d) Justice Virendra Singh
Ans (b)
Related facts:
- On 28 January 2016, The HRD ministry appointed former Allahabad High Court judge Justice Ashok Kumar Roopanwal to head the one-man judicial commission to probe the suicide of scholar Rohit Vemula.
- On January 22, 2016 the HRD ministry announced, a judicial commission to investigate the matter.
- Judicial Commission will review the entire sequence of events and the circumstances; and to establish the facts and correctives in the context of the University.
- The Judicial Commission will submit its report within 3 months.
- Vemula, a research scholar at Hyderabad University, committed suicide on January 17 after his suspension along with four other Dalit students from Hyderabad University as a disciplinary proceeding over an alleged clash.
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