KARACHI, Nov 28: The administrative judge of the anti-terrorism courts in Karachi on Monday remanded a suspect in judicial custody in a case pertaining to a grenade attack on the Saudi consulate general in the city.

The police arrested the suspect, Zaki Kazmi, on Nov 20 while his accomplice Asif Manu, said to be the mastermind of the grenade attack, was killed after an encounter in Gulistan-i-Jauhar.

Following the end of his physical remand, the police produced the suspect before the administrative judge, Justice Faisal Arab of the Sindh High Court.

The court sent the suspect to prison on judicial remand and directed the investigation officer to submit a charge-sheet on the next hearing.

According to the prosecution, two grenades were hurled at the Saudi consulate in the Defence Housing Authority on May 11 this year, but it did not cause any causality.

A case (FIR 155/11) was registered under Section 3/4 of the Explosive Substance Act read with Section 7 of the Anti-Terrorism Act of 1997.

IO told to file charge-sheet The administrative judge on Monday sent four suspects to prison on judicial remand in a case pertaining to an armed attack on the house of a political leader.

The court directed the investigation officer of the case to file a charge-sheet on Dec 2.

The four suspects — Shahjahan, Alauddin, Mushtaq Khatri and Jabbar Zafar — along with their absconding and jailed accomplices have been arrested for allegedly attacking the house of Ashiq Chandio of the Sindh Dost Party on Aug 19 within the remit of the Zaman Town police station and kidnapping his nephew Shahzad and killing two others.

A case (FIR433/11) was registered under Sections 147 (punishment for rioting), 148 (rioting, armed with deadly weapon), 149 (every member of unlawful assembly guilty of offence committed in prosecution of common object), 427 (mischief causing damage to the amount of fifty rupees), 435 (mischief by fire or explosive substance with intent to cause damage etc.), 324 (attempted murder), 302 (premeditated murder), 365 (kidnapping with intent secretly and wrongfully to confine person ) and 34 (common intention) of the Pakistan Penal Code read with Section 7 of the ATA at Zaman Town police station.