Mangaluru: The Uppinangady police have arrested five persons on charges of assaulting a journalist last week.

Mohammad Imran(24), Abdul Aziz(23), Mohammad Sinan(21), Abdul Siddiq(30) and Nawaz(27) are the arrested.

The accused will be produced before a local court on Monday.

Asif, a reporter working for a local Kannada newspaper was assualted by a group of miscreants on February 26 near Saralikatte in Uppinangady. The miscreants had threatened to kill him too.