The Salem police has slapped sedition charges against sidelined AIADMK Deputy General Secretary TTV Dhinakaran and 17 of his supporters for distributing pamphlets on NEET.

The pamphlets that were distributed by Dhinakaran supporters in Salem on September 29 hit out at the Tamil Nadu and Central governments for killing Anitha, a medical aspirant who had committed suicide on September 1 after she failed to secure an MBBS seat owing to her poor NEET score.

While one pamphlet reads, “Can the government of murderers be allowed to continue?”, another says, “Murder is not only killing a life, it’s also killing feelings”. The pamphlets also go on to accuse the Centre and the state governments of not taking a decision on NEET on time.