Authorities in India must investigate and bring to justice those responsible for an attack on freelance journalist Rama Reddy, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. Reddy, a TV reporter, was attacked in apparent retaliation for his reporting on illegal sand mining, according to a report in The New Indian Express.

Reddy, who lives in the Eluru district of Andhra Pradesh state, was attacked in his home around midnight on May 3 by about four unidentified individuals, according to reports. The assailants knocked on the journalist's door and questioned him about his reports on sand mining, before beating him and his mother with iron rods, and then fleeing, the reports said. The journalist's head and legs were injured in the attack.

The English-language news website Video Samachar and INews, a 24-hour Telugu language news channel for which Reddy works, both reported today that arrests have been made. CPJ was unable to confirm further details about the arrests with the police.