HDT leader Maulana Hidayat Ur Rehman handed over to police on physical remand.

QUETTA -- A local court in Gwadar handed over Haq Do Tehreek (HDT) leader Maulana Hidayat Ur

Rehman to the police on physical remand, a day after arresting the civil rights activist.

Rehman was arrested by the Gwadar police Friday and was produced in the court of Additional Sessions

Judge Gwadar today.

The police also produced before the court three other suspects and requested their physical remand.

The request was accepted by the court which then handed all four to the police on physical remand for four days. According to the police, cases have been registered against the HDT leader under various provisions including disturbance of peace and sedition in Gwadar. A heavy police contingent present outside the local court Friday arrested the HDT leader and three others, including Naseeb Nosherwani and Hassan Murad, days after he said he would reach Gwadar to surrender before the law enforcers. The HDT leader was nominated...