FAISALABAD, June 22: Two known yarn dealers, who are allegedly involved in injuring a constable during an assault on police while illegally taking possession of a residential plot and providing shelter to proclaimed offenders, were sent to jail after a two-day physical remand on Wednesday.

Both the accused were produced before the Anti-Terrorism Court amid tight security. The police asked the court that it did not require physical remand of Khalid Masood alias Mehr Bhola and Sheikh Riaz alias Bhola Basiwala any more.

Considering the request, the ATC ordered judicial remand of the accused. Their 19 accomplices, including inspector Ijaz Ahmad, were already on a judicial remand as they were rounded up by the police during an operation.

Inspectors Malik Tariq and Waheed Shahid, son of PPP MPA Riaz Shahid, are still at large and the court has issued warrants for their arrest.

The two traders and their accomplices, including three police inspectors, forcibly took possession of a Rs100 million residential plot on the Canal Road. As the local yarn traders protested, the police conducted an operation against the influential land grabbers. The businessmen and their associates traded fire with the raiding team during which a constable and two suspects were injured. Constable Karam Elahi died in hospital.

The Saddar police registered a case on the report of Faisalabad (Headquarters) DSP Chaudhry Mumtaz Ahmad Dev under section 109, 148, 149, 186, 324, 353, 427, 448 of PPC, 13/20/65 AO and section 7 of the Anti-Terrorism Act against the nominated people.