Agra: Campus Front of India (CFI) leader Rauf Shareef, an accused of funding and stirring unrest in the wake of the gang-rape and murder of the 19-year-old Hathras girl, was remanded to judicial custody for a day on Sunday.
Remanding magistrate Swati Singh, a judicial magistrate in Chhata, remanded Shareef to judicial custody till Monday. He would be produced before additional district and sessions judge (first) Anil Kumar Pandey on Tuesday, said his counsel Madhuban Datt Chaturvedi.
Shareef — lodged in a Kerala jail — was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate in December last year in a money laundering case. A production warrant against him was earlier issued by a Mathura court at the request of UP’s Special Task Force (STF).