Wasn't stopped from examining Rohith, HCU doctor disputes Smriti's claim

February 25, 2016 18:20

The chief medical officer of Hyderabad Central University has rejected HRD Minister Smriti Irani's claim that students prevented doctors a chance to revive Dalit scholar Rohith Vemula after he was found hanging. CMO Dr Rajashree said she was the one who declared Rohith dead on January 17 and that she was not stopped by students when she went to the hostel room.

Irani, in her speech in Parliament on Wednesday, claimed that students hid the body till the next day morning without allowing access to either doctors or the police. "In fact it was the students took me to the room and kept on requesting me to do something to revive Rohith," Dr Rajashree said. The CMO said Rohith was already dead for two hours by the time she reached the hostel around 7.30 pm on January 17. She said she checked his vitals for 10 minutes before declaring him dead.

Dr Jayashree also said police arrived at the hostel in the next few minutes and that after completing the formalities took away the body.

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