PESHAWAR, Dec 4: A local accountability court on Wednesday extended the physical remand of former inspector general of police (IGP), Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Malik Naveed for 10 days in a corruption case and ordered his production on Dec 14.

Malik Naveed, who is accused of receiving kickbacks in the purchase of weapons and vehicles for the provincial police during his stint as the chief of the department, was produced before Judge Wilayat Ali Shah after completion of his 14 days physical remand with the National Accountability Bureau (NAB), Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Special Prosecutor of NAB Lajbar Khan requested the court to allow it to keep the accused in custody for 15 more days, saying investigation into several aspects of the case is underway.

He said the accused had held some people, including the former additional IG (headquarters), the then head of the purchase committee, re-sponsible for forwarding the documents related to the weapon and vehicle purchase to him (Naveed).

The special prosecutor said the accused had claimed that he had only signed documents related to the purchase deals after the head of the committee assured him that nothing was wrong in it.

He said the then additional IG (headquarters), Majeed Marwat, currently served as the commandant of Frontier Constabulary.

Lajbar Khan also said the accused had given application for voluntary return of the misappropriated money and the said application was being processed.

He said the former police chief was charged with causing Rs1.82 billion loss to the exchequer during the purchase of weapons, vehicles and other equipment for police during 2008-09 and 2009-10.

The lawyer for Malik Naveed opposed further physical remand of his client and said the prosecution couldonly ask for further remand if it showed for what deficiency the remand was required but in the instant case, the prosecution had failed to put forward any deficiency.

He said the prosecution had yet to prove that something was in the exclusive knowledge of the accused and for that purpose his further remand was required but here nothing could be put forward about what sort of information was in exclusive knowledge of his client.

The lawyer said inquiry regarding instant charges had been in progress for over four years but nothing had so far been established.

He said the prosecution had turned one of the accused, Arshad Majeed, an approver in the case and after that, there was no need for getting custody of his client as it was the case of production of relevant documents.

It is worth mentioning that at the request of police, the provincial government had approved purchase, upgrading weapon and equipment fortheir use to counter terrorism in the province.

An amount of over Rs7 billion was released by the government for the said purchases.

In the case, private contractor Arshad Majeed and budget officer of police Javed Khan were also arrested on Feb 21, 2013 but the former was released on bail by the high court after he turned approver and agreed to voluntarily return Rs102 million.

Later on May 25, 2013, Arshad Majeed recorded his statement under Section 164 of the Code of Criminal Procedure naming several people, including Malik Naveed, as recipients of kickbacks from him for lucrative contracts and cover-up of the issue.

He had claimed that he had paid over Rs1 billion to several people, including Malik Naveed, as kickbacks.

Arshad Majeed had alleged that he had paid Rs360 million to Malik Naveed in three installments and had also purchased nine air conditioning units for his personal residence.