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Former Union curate and elder Congress person Arun Yadav has criticised the Rajasthan police's detention of 2 journalists from Madhya Pradesh implicit alleged work of fake news, calling it an "attack connected democracy".
The Rajasthan constabulary connected Friday (October 17, 2025) detained Anand Pandey and Harish Divekar from Bhopal for allegedly publishing a bid of fake and defamatory reports against Deputy Chief Minister Diya Kumari connected their quality portal, 'The Sutra', past period and for demanding ₹5 crore for their removal.
The complainant claimed that the duo contacted acquaintances of the Deputy Chief Minister, demanding respective crores of rupees to delete the mendacious reports and to refrain from publishing specified contented successful the future.
They besides allegedly threatened to harm her governmental and societal representation if the request was not met, Jaipur constabulary said successful a statement.
Congress person Mr. Yadav, successful a station connected X, said, "When journalists who archer the information are successful jailhouse portion those who dispersed lies roam free, past recognize that ideology is successful danger."
He claimed that the detention of Mr. Pandey and Mr. Divekar was a "direct onslaught connected democracy".
"The Sutra's tagline 'we fearfulness lone god' scares the BJP authorities the most, due to the fact that existent journalists bash not compromise with power," helium wrote successful the post.
According to the Rajasthan police, the aforesaid misleading contented was besides circulated connected different affiliated web portal called 'The Capital'.
Technical introspection and witnesser statements confirmed that the reports were not fact-based.
Based connected the grounds collected, Mr. Pandey and Mr. Divekar were detained from Bhopal connected Friday and were brought to Jaipur for further questioning.
