The Kathmandu District Court on Monday remanded former Speaker and CPN (Maoist Center) Vice-Chairman Krishna Bahadur Mahara, who was arrested in connection with a gold smuggling case, to four days in judicial custody.

The Public Prosecutor’s Office had demanded seven days of judicial custody.

A team of the Central Investigation Bureau had arrested Mahara from Rupandehi on Monday.

He was brought to Kathmandu on a plane today itself.