Piyush Sethia, environmental activist and founder of �Speak Out Salem�, has been charged with sedition (Section 124A, IPC), and for disrupting a Government function (Section 4(i) under TN Police Act, 1949) for distributing a pamphlet at a Republic Day function organised by the Salem district collector.
The activist had launched a cycle rally to Sivagangai, the constituency of Union Home minister P Chidambaram.
The pamphlet, written in Tamil, questioned the displacement of lakhs of tribals due to Operation Green Hunt and the non-implementation of a Supreme Court order for the rehabilitation for villagers of 644 villages by the Chhattisgarh government.