Ayodhya, July 3 -- The Ayodhya police on Thursday obtained the first police custody remand of an accused in the Ram temple donation controversy. The court of additional district judge (Anti-Corruption) Rajat Varma granted 24-hour police custody remand of Avinash Shukla (from 5pm on Thursday to 5pm on Friday) instead of two days sought by the Ayodhya police. Shukla, from whom Rs 20.40 lakh cash was shown to have been recovered by the police earlier, is among the eight accused arrested in the case on June 26. The police custody remand of Shukla coincides with the return of SIT to Ayodhya for its extended probe. According to people familiar with the matter, the Ayodhya police sought Avinash Shukla's remand at the instance of the SIT. Further arrests are likely based on information obtained from Shukla during the day-long remand, the people quoted above said. As advocates of the Faizabad Bar Association had passed a resolution on June 29 not to represent any of the eight accused in the case , the district legal services authority has provided a government advocate to Shukla. The development comes two days after Ashutosh Tewari, the Ayodhya circle officer who is the investigating officer in the case, interrogated Shukla in Ayodhya jail on Tuesday (June 30). Shukla reportedly pointed a finger at some Trust officials, according to a person familiar with the matter. The Ayodhya police arrested eight men on June 26 - Anukalp Mishra, Lavkush Mishra, Ram Shankar Yadav 'Tinnu', Manish Yadav, Subhash Srivastava, Avinash Shukla, Rama Shankar Mishra, and Karunesh Pandey....