Jaipur: Rajasthan Police has detained two people from Madhya Pradesh associated with a news portal for allegedly publishing a series of fake and defamatory reports against Deputy Chief Minister Diya Kumari and demanding Rs 5 crore for their removal.

According to the complaint lodged on September 28, the accused -- Anand Pandey and Harish Divekar -- had published around a dozen allegedly baseless and fabricated stories against Kumari over the last month on the news portal, 'The Sutra'.

The complainant claimed that the duo later contacted acquaintances of the deputy chief minister, demanding several crores of rupees to delete the false reports and to refrain from publishing such content in the future.

They also allegedly threatened to damage her political and social image if the demand wa

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