PESHAWAR, Dec 11: An Intelligence Bureau employee, Mohammad Tufail, was remanded in the police custody for two more days by an anti-terrorism court here on Monday.

Nr Tufail, accused of planting explosives near the chief minister's secretariat on Dec 5, was produced in the court after expiry of his four-day remand granted earlier.

FIRs have been registered against the accused, a naib-qasid in the bureau, by the East Cantonment police station under the Explosive Substance Act, Anti-Terrorism Act and Sections 224, 225 and 201 of the Pakistan Penal Code.

IB Joint Director Zafarullah Khan has also been nominated in another case for illegally taking away the accused with the recovered explosive stick.

Mr Zafarullah was granted transit pre-arrest bail by a court in Swabi for 15 days on Dec 7.

Mr Tufail was presented in the court by Inspector Hayat Khan of the Special Investigation Unit amid tight security.

The officer said that a joint investigation team of federal and provincial law-enforcement agencies had interrogated the accused.

He said experts of the bomb disposal squad had examined the place where the explosive stick had been thrown by the accused.

Mr Hayat stated that statements of various people, including the IB officials, had been recorded. He requested the court to allow the custody of the accused for another week so that the investigation could be completed.

The accused informed the court presided over by Shahjee Rehman Khan that he had been taken for medical examination and he had not been tortured.

Mr Rehman allowed two-day custody of the accused to the police and ordered his production in the court on Wednesday.