The accused policemen, Suresh Satpute, PromodDhongre, VitthalDeshmukh and GulabPoayam, of the traffic control wing, were remanded to three days' forest custody remand on Wednesday evening by the court.

The five policemen had allegedly taken two kgs of meat of the monitor lizard to a local eatery on July 1 and asked its owner to cook it for them.

The forest officers, having a tip-off, raided the eatery and seized the meat, but the cops had then managed to flee. Four of the accused finally surrendered after a month-long flight and failure to seek bail from high court. The fifth accused, Arun Bhasarkar is still at large.