Chandigarh, Jan. 6 -- Three journalists and an RTI activist have moved the Punjab and Haryana high court seeking quashing of a criminal case registered by Ludhiana police for allegedly circulating "objectionable and misleading" content on social media related to the use of a helicopter associated with the Punjab chief minister.

The petition by Manik Goyal, an RTI activist, and three journalists, Baljinder Singh, Maninderjit Singh and Mandeep Singh Makkar, is likely to be taken up for hearing after the winter break ends, their lawyer Loveneet Singh Thakur said.

Multiple persons, including these four, were booked in a case registered under Sections 353(1) (penalises making, publishing, or spreading false statements, rumours, or reports in...