FLASH: Union Minister Bandaru Dattatreya charged with abetting suicide after scholar allegedly committed suicide in University of Hyderabad. Dattareya has been booked under the SC/ST Act. The HRD Ministry is to send a team to Hyderabad today.The Hyderabad Central University VC is also booked under the SC/ST act.

A 26-year-old Dalit PhD scholar committed suicide in a hostel room in Hyderabad Central University days after he was expelled from the hostel 12 days ago. V Rohith was found hanging on Monday morning. He was among the five research scholars who were suspended by the central university administration in August last year, and he had been accused, along with others, of assaulting a student leader, said police.

The suspension was revoked later.

"I feel a growing gap between my soul and my body," Rohith said in his suicide note. "And I have become a monster."

He ended his suicide note by holding himself responsible for his death: "No one has instigated me, whether by their acts or by their words to this act. This is my decision and I am the only one responsible for this. Do not trouble my friends and enemies on this after I am gone."

After his body was found, several students gathered around the campus and raised slogans, asking for a case under SC/ST Atrocity Act to be registered against Union minister and BJP leader Bandaru Dattatreya. They claimed that Dattatreya had asked the HRD ministry to take action against the five scholars including Rohit.