Gadchiroli: A protest was held in the district's remote Korchi taluka bordering Chhattisgarh over the suicide of a dalit research scholar in Hyderabad Central University (HCU).

The protest was organised on Wednesday jointly by Congress, CPI, Buddhist Society of India, Bharip Bahujan Mahasangh and Samyak Vidyarthi Andolan. A protest march passed through the Weekly Market Square of the town, where the shopkeepers shut shops following request from the marchers, and ended in front of the tehsil office after covering a distance of 2 km.