KARACHI: The administrative judge of anti-terrorism courts remanded on Thursday a police inspector and his accomplice in police custody in a kidnapping for ransom case.

Inspector Punhal Shah and Boota have been booked for allegedly abducting seafood trader Mohammed Dilshad in Mauripur on Nov 15 for ransom.

The investigating officer produced the suspects before the court and submitted that they were caught red-handed while taking ransom money.

The IO sought their custody for two weeks for questioning and arrest of two absconding accused.

The administrative judge handed them over to the police on physical remand till Nov 20. According to the prosecution, the suspects kidnapped the complainant from his shop in Mohammadi Colony, deprived him of cash, mobile phone, other valuables and a cheque of Rs200,000. The suspects released the captive to arrange another Rs200,000, but police arrested them on Wednesday when they came to collect the ransom and also recovered the captive`s cell phone and other articles from their possession, it added.

A case was registered under Sections 365-A (kidnapping to extort property, etc,), 506-B (criminal intimidation) and 34 (common intention) of the Pakistan Penal Code read with Section 7 of theAnti-Terrorism Act, 1997 at the Docks police station.

It may be recalled that a number of police officers have been apprehended this year in similar cases.

The then Tipu Sultan police station SHO Mohammed Saleem was arrestedinAugustforallegedlykidnapping two traders within the remit of the Saeedabad police station for ransom.

Similarly, Assistant SubInspector Zafar Abbas along with his accomplices was arrested in January for allegedly 1(idnapping transporter Abdul Rahim Mengal in Malir and demanding ransom for his release while ASI Akram Khan was also apprehended in February in Gharibabad when they came in a police van of the Pakistan Bazaar police station to collect the ransom from a brother of the captive.

MQM-London activists remanded A judicial magistrate remanded on Thursday seven activists of the Muttahida Qaumi MovementLondon to prison in a case registered for rioting.

Police submitted that the suspects were arrested on Wednesday near Jinnah Ground in Azizabad when they tried to engage in a scuffle with leaders and workers of the MQM-Pakistan when the latter attemptedtovisitYadgar-i-Shuhada.

The police produced suspects before the court and a judicial magistrate (central) sent them to prison on judicial remand. Around 40 others belonging to the same group were mentioned as absconders in the FIR.