Islamabad, March. 2 (PTI): An anti-terrorism court in Pakistan's Hyderabad town has remanded to custody six activists of banned militant outfit Harkat-ul Mujahideen, arrested for the kidnapping and murder of a Hindu engineer.

Judge Sayed Ali Ashraf Shah has remanded Mohammad Ali, Mohammad Asghar, Javed Ansari, and Khadim Hussain Minhas, his sons Tahir Hussain and Shahid Hussain Minhas to police and judicial custody in separate cases relating to engineer Gireesh Kumar's murder, media here reported today.

The six were arrested after the body of Kumar, who was kidnapped and murdered in August last year, was found in an abandoned house in Sachal Sarmast Colony in Hyderabad in Pakistan's Sindh province.

Kumar was kidnapped by four people, one wearing a police uniform, who barged into his flat and took him away after tying his younger brother Santosh.

All the arrested were affiliated to Harkat-ul Mujahideen, a militant outfit banned by Pakistan government. They were charged under Anti-Terrorism Act.

The killing of Kumar by a militant outfit had sent shockwaves among the minority Hindus who reside mostly in Sindh province.