Chief Judicial Magistrate Sudhir Jeewan today remanded former Indian cricket captain Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi in police custody for another day.

Pataudi and seven others are facing charges of poaching following the recovery of carcasses of a black buck and two rabbits from a Gypsy owned by him on June 3.

He was produced in a court here today on the expiry of one-day remand granted yesterday after Pataudi had surrendered in the same court. The prosecution pleaded for the extension of remand maintaining that it needed to recover the registration papers of the Gypsy used in the crime. The magistrate then extended the remand by a day. Pataudi now will be produced in the court tomorrow.

The Gypsy was recovered from the New Delhi residence of Pataudi by the police raids after Pataudi ignored police notices directing him to appear before it for interrogation.

The magistrate also directed the prosecution to file its reply to the regular bail plea filed by Pataudi when he would be produced in court tomorrow. The bail application is also listed for hearing tomorrow.

During proceedings today counsel for the People for Animals (PFA), a non-government organisation, sought the court’s permission to assist the prosecution in the case. The CJM accepted the plea.

Earlier today morning Pataudi was taken to Kirdaud village, 12 km from here for identifying the area where poaching allegedly took place. Sources said he just maintained stoic silence and answered very few queries.

Pataudi and seven others, including Shashi Singh, CEO of a software company, were caught carrying carcasses of a black buck and two rabbits in one of the two vehicles they were travelling in during a routine check by a police party on the night of June 3. The police let all of them go after detaining them for two hours in the police station. It registered only a Daily Diary Report that day.

However, when the news leaked the police registered an FIR on June 5 and arrested one of the accused Madan Singh, a resident of Aurangpur village near here who later was freed on bail. He is suspected to be one of the hunting guides poachers hire to hunt in the Kirdaud forest area.

Thereafter the police issued three notices to Pataudi to appear before the SHO, Jhajjar police station. The last deadline expired on June 17. The police raided several possible hideouts of Pataudi in Delhi, Gurgaon and Pataudi in between. During these raids several animal trophies were found hanging on walls of Ibrahim Palace at Pataudi lending credence to the charges that he is a compulsive hunter.