MUMBAI: A journalist who was covering a police raid on a bar in Mira Road in the wee hours of Friday was found dead in a secluded area. Two other reporters were assaulted by the bar staffers.

According to the Mira Road police, the reporters of a weekly magazine Santosh Mishra and Shashi Sharma had gone to the White House bar in Naya Nagar where a police raid was on. Mishra and Sharma who were clicking photographs of the raid were assaulted by the staffers. Sharma who sustained serious injuries is being treated at the Indira Gandhi civic hospital in Mira Road. Mishra has been admitted to the Bhaktivedanta hospital.

After the assault on Mishra and Sharma, another journalist Raghvendra Dube reached the spot for coverage. He even went to the Mira Road police station where a huge mob of bar owners and staffers were present. According to police, Dube left the police station at around 5 am. A few hours later, they got a call about a body lying near S K Stone on the Mira-Bhayander road. It turned out to be that of Dube. The body had several injury marks. The body has been send for autopsy.

Reporters from the Mira-Bhayander region reached the police station and demanded action against the culprits.