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Jodhpur, Dec 22 (IANS) Amarchand, the husband of missing Rajasthan nurse Bhanwari Devi, was sent to judicial custody by a court here Thursday, a lawyer said.

He was presented in the court after his Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) remand ended.

Amarchand was arrested by the CBI Dec 8 after he failed to give satisfactory answers in connection with the case of her wife’s disappearance Sep 1.

He accused the then minister Mahipal Maderna of being involved in his wife’s disappearance.

“Amarchand was presented in the court of an additional chief judicial magistrate. He has been quizzed for about 15 days and the CBI has got vital clues from his interrogation,” a source close to the CBI told IANS.

His lawyer Mahish Vyas said that his client moved an application in the court requesting isolation in the jail as he was concerned about his security in the jail.

“He requested the court that he should be kept away from other three accused Shahabuddin, Baldev Jaat alias Balia and Sohan Lal who have been arrested in the case. The court has accepted his request,” said Vyas.

He was arrested when he did not cooperate with the agency and gave different versions during his interrogation.

Amarchand had tried to escape quizzing by the CBI sleuths in Jodhpur Dec 7 a day before he was arrested but was caught within two hours and subjected to intense questioning.

He claimed his wife had been kidnapped at the behest of Maderna, who allegedly featured in a CD showing the two in a compromising position.

Maderna was arrested in Jodhpur Dec 3 and Malkhan Singh Bishnoi, Congress legislator from Luni constituency, Dec 19.

The agency has also arrested Parasram Bishnoi, brother of Malkhan Singh Bishnoi.

The agency also filed a charge sheet against the other three arrested accused in a court in Jodhpur.

In the charge sheet, Shahabuddin, Balia and Sohanlal were charged under Sections 364 (abduction with an intent to kill) and 120 B (criminal conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code and various sections of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act in the case.