A court in Maharashtra's Ratnagiri district remanded Pandharinath Amberkar, who is accused of killing journalist Shashikant Warishe, in 14-day judicial custody on Thursday.

Amberkar was produced before the court at Rajapur, some 440 km from Mumbai, as his five-day police custody ended on Thursday, a police official said.
Warishe (48) was mowed down by a Sports Utility Vehicle (SUV) allegedly driven by Amberkar, a land dealer, at Rajapur on February 6. The journalist died in a hospital the next day. Amberkar, arrested for murder, allegedly used to threaten any person who opposed land acquisition for a proposed refinery in the area. An article written by Warishe against Amberkar had appeared in a local Marathi newspaper on the morning of the incident, police have said.