FIA get 3-day physical remand of Shoaib Sheikh.

ISLAMABAD -- A judicial magistrate court on Friday granted a three-day physical remand of accused Shoaib Sheikh to the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) for alleged bribing to a judge in the Axact degree case.

The FIA produced the accused before Judicial Magistrate Umar Shabbir and requested for his 10-day physical remand to carry out an investigation into the matter.

The FIA's investigation officer informed the court that the high court had ordered an inquiry against the accused, and during the investigation transaction of some amount in the account of the former judge was found. However, the judge did not confess to taking any bribe, he added.

The accused said he had no connection with the transaction and he should have been given some time to join the investigation.

Whether the accused, who had transferred the said amount into the judge's account, had been arrested, he asked.

Prosecutor Ishfaq Naqvi said a total of 26 accused were named in the case. The statement of the said former additional...