New Delhi: The HRD ministry on Thursday appointed former Allahabad High Court judge Justice Ashok Kumar Roopanwal to head the one-man judicial commission to probe the suicide of Dalit scholar Rohit Vemula in Hyderabad.

"The ministry has appointed Justice Roopanwal to probe the circumstances leading to the Dalit student's suicide in Hyderabad," said an official of the human resource development ministry.