New Delhi, June 29 -- An RTI activist and a YouTuber have been arrested here for allegedly extorting a private school operator by blackmailing him, police on Saturday said. The two accused, identified as RTI activist Sukhbir Tanwar and YouTuber M K Maurya, were produced in a city court and sent into judicial custody, police said.
An FIR was registered against them at Sector 37 Police Station, they said. Pradeep Kaushik, the chairman of GAV International School, in his complaint said that a person named Sukhbir Tanwar had filed an RTI in the Education Department against his school in October 2022.
Kaushik alleged that Tanwar had through this RTI started a business of blackmailing him.
He said that a case was filed in the court to blackmai...