Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate H S Khutwad rejected the investigating agency's plea, which sought three-day further remand after the completion of the two-day custody.
CBI had arrested Barot on September 25 following his interrogation for more than four hours at its Gandhinagar office. He is the second to be arrested after former Mumbai scribe Ketan Tirodkar in the case.
Earlier, the court had remanded Barot in two-day CBI custody.
CBI again sought the Gujarat cop's custody for three more days on the grounds that during the interrogation Barot was non-cooperative, evasive and had not revealed details of the crime.
"We are faced with the offender who is not co-operating and not disclosing any details of modus operandi applied by the co-accused of the case," CBI counsel Ejaz Khan argued.
He also mentioned that in a case of fake encounter when a police officer is involved, the Supreme Court has suggested awarding death penalty and this was also a case of grave crime.
Opposing the demand for further remand, advocate Rohit Verma, representing the Mehsana Deputy Superintendent of Police, argued that CBI has not showed what they have done in past two days during custodial interrogation.
"The ball has to go forward not in backward direction. They have to produce before the court what they have collected during the remand and on that basis they should seek further remand," he said. (More)
