September 02, 2008	Tuesday	Ramazan 1, 1429

RAWALPINDI, Sept 1: An anti-terrorism court (ATC) here on Monday remanded a suspected suicide bomber into police custody for 10 more days on the request of the investigators who said they needed to extract more information regarding the twin suicide blasts in Wah Cantonment last month.

ATC-II Judge Sakhi Mohammad Kahot awarded the police 10 days physical custody of Hameedullah Mehsud, a suspected bomber arrested from Wah soon after the blasts although the SHO Wah police had sought 20 days remand.

The police, in their submission before the court, said they had to arrest other men allegedly involved in the blasts that took place at the entrances of Pakistan Ordnance Factories (POF) and find out their addresses.

The investigators said on the information obtained from the accused, Hameed, they recovered suicide vests, hand grenades and other explosives from Akora Khattak in Nowshera district on August 25 and a case was registered against him with the area police.

Earlier, the police obtained 10 days remand of the accused on August 23 after he was arrested from the site of the two suicide blasts on August 21 in which at least 70 people were killed and over 100 injured. A suicide vest was also found from the toilet of a nearby mosque.

The police registered a criminal case against the unknown persons under sections 302 (murder), 324 (attempted murder), 435 (mischief by fire or explosive substance with intent to cause damage), 436 (mischief by fire or explosive substance with intent to destroy house, etc) 120-B (criminal conspiracy) of Pakistan Penal Code (PPC), sections 3 and 4 of explosive act and section 7 of terrorism act.

Meanwhile, the ATC-I judge remanded two men, declared proclaimed offenders in a police encounter case, into Hassanabdal police for five days.

The SHO Hassanabdal police sought seven days remand saying he had to get information about other absconders from the accused, Inayat Ali and Wilayat Khan.

The two men were booked on October 4 last year under sections 353 (assault or criminal force to deter public servant from discharge of his duty), 324 (attempted murder) and terrorism.