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Ravi Kumar, who was part of a fact finding team that prepared a report on Rohith Vemula’s suicide, said that the issue began about seven months ago with a false claim by the ABVP that the Ambedkar Students’ Association (ASA, of which Vemula was a member) had protested against the hanging of Yakub Memon. “ASA and other Dalit groups were against capital punishment in connection with a proposed amendment to the SC/ST Act,” said Ravikumar. “The ABVP framed it as being in support of terrorists. It was not about Yakub Memon at all, it was a small protest against capital punishment.” - thewire.in