Mangalore: A memorandum was submitted on Thursday to DSP Shantanu Sinha of CPC office, Mangalore by a group of journalists from press club, led by Taranath Kapikad and Naveen Surinje and others demanding justice to a fellow-journalists V.T.Prasad of Karavali Ale a local daily on Wednesday,Nov.27 at Vitla near his house by a gang of 40 muslim youth who surrounded him and beat up with weapons they carried.

The press men asked that the culprits be punished according to law for their heinous act of injury a journalist.

It is said that Prasad had return reports in the daily paper and try to help a poor human Aleema to build her cottage  by renovating it . The group of young Muslims mistook him and beat him for reasons only known to them.

The press men ask for an investigation in to the matter and sought remedial measures of justice to the injured journalists who is in Mangalore Hospital.