KARACHI, June 23: The administrative judge of the Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC), Karachi division, Justice Qaiser Iqbal, on Saturday remanded three suspects facing charges in the Nishtar Park bombing case in police custody till June 30.

Three suspects Muhammad Amin, Mufti Mohammad Zakir Hussain Siddiqui and Sultan alias Mehmood, stated to be activists of the banned Lashkar-e-Jhangvi organisation, were produced before the court with their faces covered and amid tight security.

According to police, the suspects with the help of co-accused Amanullah alias Mufti Ilyas, Qari Abid Iqbal and Khalid alias Abrar had planned the Nishtar Park suicide attack.

The investigation officer of the case submitted in the remand request that an accused named Rehmatullah had already been remanded in judicial custody by the judicial magistrate I (West).

The IO also mentioned in the remand application the name of the alleged suicide bomber, Mohammad Siddique.

About 54 people, including Sunni Tehrik leaders Abbas Qadri and Iftikhar Bhatti, Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal leader Hafiz Taqi and others, were killed while about 120 were wounded when the blast occurred near the stage when participants of the 12th Rabiul Awal congregation were offering Magrhib prayers at Nishtar Park on April 11 last year.

The FIR of the case was lodged under sections 302 and 324 of the PPC, sections 3, 4 of the Explosive Substance Act read with section 7 of the Anti-Terrorism Act 1997 at the Soldier Bazaar police station by Mohammad Altaf Qadri.