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Jodhpur, Nov 18 (IANS) Two key suspects in the case of missing nurse Bhanwari Devi were rearrested by police here Friday and produced in a court which sent them to five-day police custody, sources said.

Police had registered a case against the two, Sohan Lal Vishnoi and Shahabuddin, for purchasing SIM cards on fake identification documents. The SIM cards were used by them in abduction of Bhanwari Devi who features in a CD with sacked minister Mahipal Maderna in a compromising position.

Vishnoi and Shahabuddin have been interrogated by the investigating agencies in this connection earlier also.

Sources said the Central Bureau of Investigation wanted to quiz the duo further, but they were under judicial custody and lodged at Jodhpur Central Jail. Now the case of getting SIM cards on fake documents was registered against them.

“A first information report had been registered against them with Pipar police station in Jodhpur rural for purchasing SIM cards illegally. Both will be interrogated for five days while they are under police custody,” a senior police officer told IANS.

The local police, along with the CBI, will now interrogate the two and try to locate Bhanwari who is missing since Sep 1.

Meanwhile, Maderna, who has been sacked from the cabinet and suspended from the Congress party over allegations that he raped, kidnapped and murdered Bhawnari Devi, remained hospitalised at Mathura Das Mathur Hospital here.

He had been admitted to the intensive care unit of the hospital Saturday midnight after complaining of chest pain.