Two journalists from the Hindi news outlet The Sootr were detained by the Rajasthan Police on Friday for publishing allegedly false and defamatory reports about Deputy Chief Minister Diya Kumari, The Indian Express reported.

Anand Pandey, the editor-in-chief of The Sootr, and Harish Divekar, its managing editor, were picked up from Madhya Pradesh’s Bhopal, where the news outlet is based.

In a first information report filed at Jaipur’s Karni Vihar police station, the two journalists were accused of “blackmailing and extortion by publishing false and defamatory content”, the newspaper reported.

The complaint was filed by a person identified as Narendra Singh Rathore.

The journalists were booked under sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita pertaining to defamation, extortion an

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