The HRD Ministry today made it clear that the Justice (retd) AK Roopanwal Commission report on the death of Rohith Vemula at Hyderabad Central University has been tabled in both Houses of Parliament and hence it is a public document that can be accessed through RTI.
The ministry was responding to reports that it had rejected an RTI appeal for making public the commission's report on the death of Vemula.
Replying to an RTI query, the ministry had said that the file concerned was "under submission" and a copy of the report cannot be provided.
In a statement today, the ministry said, "The fact of the matter is the said response to an RTI query was given at a time when the report of the Commission of Inquiry constituted by the Government had not been laid in Parliament."