Bengaluru, Apr 2: Opener Quinton de Kock's entertaining fifty and Nicholas Pooran's late charge powered Lucknow Super Giants to 181 for five against Royal Challengers Bengaluru in their IPL match here on Tuesday.

De Kock hit 8 fours and 5 sixes in his 56-ball 81, while Pooran smashed five sixes en route a 21-ball 40 not out.

Skipper KL Rahul (20) and Marcus Stoinis (24) also got starts but couldn't capitalise.

Glenn Maxwell (2/23) snapped two wickets for RCB, while Yash Dayal (1/24), Reece Topley (1/39) and Mohammed Siraj (1/47) accounted for one each.

Brief Scores:

Lucknow Super Giants: 181 for 5 in 20 overs (Quinton de Kock 81; Glenn Maxwell 2/23).

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Hyderabad  (PTI): Rohith Vemula's mother Radhika Vemula met Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy here on Saturday and urged him to see that "justice" is done to the family.

Reddy assured her that an investigation would be conducted again into the University of Hyderabad student's suicide in 2016 and that justice would be done, an official release said.

Police have filed a closure report before a local court in its probe into the death of Rohith Vemula, a student of the University of Hyderabad, claiming he was not a Dalit and died by suicide in 2016 as he feared that his "real caste" would be discovered.

Telangana DGP Ravi Gupta has already announced to conduct further investigation into the case in view of the doubts expressed by Rohith Vemula's mother and others on the closure report.

A petition will be filed in the court concerned requesting the Magistrate to permit further investigation into the case, he said in a statement on Friday night.

The police gave a clean chit to the accused, including incumbent Haryana Governor Bandaru Dattatreya, former BJP MLC N Ramchander Rao, and cited lack of evidence in the case.