Rohit Vemula,a doctoral student at Hyderabad university, is thought to have killed himself after being accused of assaulting a legal-wing student leaderIndian police on Monday fired water cannon to disperse students protesting the death of a young Dalit scholar who committed suicide after he was suspended from university, and in a case some have blamed on caste-related discrimination.[br]Rohit Vemula,a 26-year-old doctoral student at the university of Hyderabad, was found hanged on Sunday evening, and triggering protests in the southern city and unusual Delhi.
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Source: theguardian.com