The judicial custody of Lieutenant Colonel Shrikant Purohit, accused of being involved in the Malegaon blast, was on Monday extended till January 17 by a local court in a case relating to procuring arms license on fake documents.

The army officer was produced before Judge V V Joshi after the end of his judicial custody today.

The court sent Purohit in judicial remand for another 12 days, his counsel Avinash Bhide told PTI.

The case was filed by Pune resident Shirish Date on November 16, claiming the license for his gun had been obtained by his friend Purohit from the army quota, using fake documents.

Date has claimed the fake papers showed him as a resident of Military Camp at Devlali near here in North Maharashtra.

The arms licence case was filed after Purohit's arrest in connection with the blast in which six persons were killed.

The army officer is among nearly a dozen persons arrested for the explosion in Malegaon, a communally sensitive powerloom town in Nashik district of Maharashtra, on September 29 last year.