KARACHI, May 20: A judicial magistrate on Friday remanded four suspected militants in judicial custody.

The CID police claimed to have arrested the four suspects — Maaz alias Irfan, Babar Iqbal alias Babli, Habib-ur-Rehman and Habibullah — in the Pirabad area on May 12 after a shootout and recovered explosives from their possessions.

The suspects were produced before a judicial magistrate (west), who sent them to prison on judicial remand till May 29 and directed the police to submit charge-sheets against them on the next hearing.

The police claimed that the suspects were associated with the banned Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan.

The suspects were booked under Sections 353 (criminal force to deter public servant from discharge of his duty), 324 (attempted murder) and 34 (common intention) of the Pakistan Penal Code, 13-D of the Pakistan Arms Ordinance, 1965 and 4/5 of the Explosive Substance Act.