New Delhi: Days after Dalit scholar Rohith Vemula committed suicide in Hyderabad, few IIMC students in Delhi have reportedly posted derrogatory comments against Dalit and tribal students on social media.
It has been reported that a group of students of the Indian Institute of Mass Communication made casteist remarks against students belonging to the SC and ST community after they protested over Vemula’s suicide.
The IIMC has formed a committee to probe allegations and has asked for a report within three weeks. The committee was set up after a group of students, including those from SC and ST community, approached authorities.
In letters to the Social Justice Ministry and the Tribal Ministry, 17 students have complained against certain social media posts that first appeared on January 18.The students subsequently threatened legal recourse stating that due to the prevailing tension”they are not able to focus on studies.
When one of the students who has been complained against, said, “I have apologised for the post although initially I was not ready to do so. In the region where I come from, words I used in the post are not regarded offensive at all. A propaganda has been unleashed against me.”
The complainant students have told the authorities that comments are being passed and remarks made loud” when they pass through the corridors in the college and hostels since they raised the matter.
Last month, a group of students had organised a protest meet inside the campus over the suicide of Hyderabad University Dalit student Rohith Vemula.
