Hyderabad: Ten professors belonging to SC/ST community on Thursday resigned from their administrative posts in the University of Hyderabad (UoH), in response to the 'fabridcated statements' by Union HRD Minister Smriti Irani over Dalit scholar Rohith Vemula's suicide.

'In response to the Honourable Minister's (Smriti Irani) fabricated statements, we the Dalit (SC/ST) faculty and officers lay down our administrative positions' said a press statement by UoH SC/ST Teachers and Officers Forum.