Girl's father and his goons defaming via lcoal newspaper!!

Hello  all,

Although the girl's reported dowry case is going on under revision in Family Court, as they did not like the judgement given by local court, Now the girl's father and his goons have given a false news in the local paper Dainik Jagran and Amar Ujala that we asked her for Dowry and beat her out of the house.

They sent a local police officer to harrass my mother asking her why brother did not go to the hearing dates!! etc.

What is the immediate step that can be taken against this?? Can this incident be filed as case under defamation, exploitation and blackmail??

thanks in advance for your time,regards

Our lawyer suggests that it won't be worth starting a defamation case as it would only be a waste of our time and money. Everything written on the newspaper is absolute rubbish. Maybe once we get the outcome from the court then we can get some relevant info. published too...