KARACHI, Nov 6 A civil judge and judicial magistrate (west) on Thursday remanded Mohammad Kamran Tessori, a gold trader, in police custody till Nov 8.

Kamran Tessori was allegedly involved in a shootout with police.The police arrested Kamran at Karachi airport upon his arrival from Islamabad on Nov 5.The prosecution said that the police had received information on July 25 that Kamran Tessori, Mohammad Imran Tessori and Mohammad Khalid Siddiqui were present at a place near Hawkesbay.

The suspects were wanted in a case (FIR No.07/2008) registered under Sections 353, 223, 224, 225, 225-A, 395, 119 and 120-B of the Pakistan Penal Code in district Badin, the prosecution said.

A police party raided a place at Hawkesbay where the suspects were present in a car and when they were asked to stop their vehicle, they opened fire on the police to avoid their arrest and escaped, the prosecution claimed.

The police registered a case (FIR No.112/08) on the behalf of the state against the suspects under Sections 324 and 353/34 of the Pakistan Penal Code at Docks police station.

Earlier, the police had arrested Kamran Tessori for his suspected involvement in a land scam of a proposed real estate project, Gold City, in the interior of Sindh and for which the former Sindh chief minister, Arbab Ghulam Rahim, had allotted around 80 acres of land to him for industrial purposes. The land was part of a historical graveyard.

The police claimed that Mr Tessori had escaped from the police custody when he was being shifted to Badin.