India, June 10 -- Trinamool Congress leader Jahangir Khan, arrested on "extortion" and other charges, was remanded to police custody for five days by a court here on Tuesday.

Khan was arrested near the India-Nepal border in North Bengal's Panitanki area on Monday. He had unsuccessfully contested the Falta assembly seat in the West Bengal assembly election, and had not been seen in the constituency in South 24 Parganas district since a couple of days before the repoll in the seat on May 21.

The Diamond Harbour sub-divisional court remanded Khan to police custody for five days in connection with seven FIRs filed against him at Falta police station on the prosecution's request.

The Calcutta High Court had on May 26 vacated an interim prot...