NEW DELHI: The Press Club of India and Indian Women's Press Corps on Tuesday expressed serious concern over journalists on duty being attacked while they were covering the violence in northeast Delhi since last Sunday.Earlier, a journalist with JK 24X7 news received a bullet injury and two reporters from NDTV were beaten and punched by rioters in northeast Delhi.Saying that the journalists have been punched and attacked by "communal mobs", the associations alleged that the police were either absent or did not come to help. "Shockingly, mobs were checking religious credentials of journalists," the organizations said in a statement.The journalist associations said that the TV journalists seemed to have been specially targetted to prevent videography or photography that may lead to them being identified.Calling the police "lethargic", they said they cannot escape the blame for attacks on the media persons."We expect the authorities, particularly the police and the Union home ministry, to be alive to democratic sensibilities and ensure that media are not brought under physical assault," the statement said.Akash, who works with 24*7 channel, sustained a bullet injury while covering the communal clashes in Maujpur locality and is in hospital where his condition is serious, said JK 24X7 channel.NDTV said its journalist Arvind Gunasekar was hit by rioters while he was at one of the spots in northeast Delhi and lost a tooth. His fellow reporter, Saurabh, who tried to shield him, was punched, it said.Many other journalists took to social media to share tales of how they were heckled and some alleged they were questioned about their religious identity.On Monday, too, reporters had a tough time covering the violence with many of them threatened and heckled by the mob.The death toll in the violence in northeast Delhi has climbed to ten, according to police.