Hyderabad: A day after HRD Minister Smriti Irani claimed that no doctor was called in to revive Hyderabad University scholar Rohith Vemula, CNN-IBN has accessed the Telangana Police report that makes no mention about the denial of medical examination.
The report, however, claims that Telangana Police faced resistance while probing the case. Police have claimed that an unruly mob of students did not even allow police to take out Vemula's body to carry out the investigation.
As per the report, the students delayed the police probe by demanding the arrest of Hyderabad Central University's Vice-Chancellor.
During a debate in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday on the controversies surrounding the Hyderabad University, Irani had said nobody allowed a doctor near Vemula either to revive him or take him to the hospital.
"Nobody allowed a doctor near him. The police has reported that not 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.
However, the duty doctor at the university's health centre had on Thursday contradicted the claim of the HRD Minister.
CMO Dr Rajashree told CNN-IBN that she was not stopped by students when she went to the hostel room. "In fact it was the students who took me to the room and kept on requesting me to do something to revive Rohith," Dr Rajashree said.
Students of the university also released a video footage which showed policemen near Vemula's body which was lying on the floor in the hostel room.
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.
She said it was incorrect of Irani to say that no doctor saw Vemula's body till the next day.
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