Jalandhar, May 22 -- The local court on Thursday extended the custody of two accused in the improvised explosive device (IED) blast outside the Border Security Force (BSF) Punjab Frontier headquarters in Jalandhar for another five days.

Accused Anil Kumar, a resident of Uttar Pradesh currently residing in Amritsar, and Umar Deen, a taxi driver based in Zirakpur, were produced in the court after their seven-day police custody ended.

A senior official, privy to the investigation, said during the course of interrogation of both the accused, it has come to fore that they were in constant touch with their Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence-sponsored radical module run by Shahzad Bhatti via social media apps.

"Bhatti was giving them inst...