RAWALPINDI: A court on Monday remanded for two weeks a former lawmaker held in connection with the murder of a Polish engineer decapitated by Taliban militants in February, police said.

Geologist Piotr Stanczak, 42, was working in Pakistan for a Polish oil and natural gas exploration company when he was seized in the volatile northwest of the country last September. His kidnappers killed his driver and his bodyguard.

‘Shah Abdul Aziz was presented before a court which ordered a 14-day judicial remand in the murder case of a Polish engineer,’ senior police official Fakhar Sultan told AFP.

Witnesses said Aziz, whose face was covered behind a black cloth, was presented before the anti-terror court in Rawalpindi amid tight security.

Attaullah, another man, arrested by police on July 16, was also presented at the court, presided over by judge Baqar Ali Rana, senior police official Tariq Mehmood told AFP.

Officials said police Sunday arrested three other people suspected of links to Stanczak's murder and of plotting attacks in Islamabad.

Mehmood said the judge ordered the suspects to be sent on a 14-day judicial remand to high-security Adiala prison in Rawalpindi.

Mehmood said police had some ‘important clues’ regarding the kidnapping and murder of the Polish geologist.

‘During the interrogation they told us about a gang of eight to 10 people who kidnapped and later beheaded the Polish engineer. We are following the other suspects,’ Mehmood said.—AFP