After efforts for months to get his custody, failure to provide a court a remand application for the custody of gangster Babloo Srivastava resulted in the police having to transport him back to a jail in Uttar Pradesh.

Srivastava, whose real name is Om Prakash Srivastava, is presently lodged in the Bareilly jail in Uttar Pradesh serving a life term after being convicted in a murder case. He was brought to the city in connection with a 1994 kidnapping case.

Yesterday he was produced before a special Terrorism and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act court but the officials from the D N Nagar police station sought time to find the required documents in the case.