KARACHI, July 4: A judicial magistrate further extended on Thursday the physical remand of a film director and two female suspects in a murder case for a day as police submitted a list of three witnesses for deposition.

Mansoor Mujahid has been booked for killing his friend Faisal Nabi in an apartment in the Defence Housing Authority on the night of June 19. The suspect’s friend Anab Hameed and the victim’s companion Masuma Abidi have been arrested for abetting the crime.

The main suspect with his female friend has been in police custody since June 23 and Abidi has been in custody for a few days. The investigating officer reproduced the suspects before the court of a judicial magistrate (south) and sought further extension in the remand on the ground that statements of some prosecution witnesses had to be recorded under Section 164 of the criminal procedure code.

However, the defence lawyers opposed the IO’s plea while a counsel for Abidi contended that his client was cooperating with the police and willing to record her statement under Section 164 of the CrPC and sought extension in the remand.

Magistrate Hatim Aziz Solangi granted a day’s extension in the remand and fixed Friday for recording statements of the three prosecution witnesses after the IO asked the court to record statements of the deceased’s sister, a friend and the driver.