Nirmal, Jan 22: The Nirmal court has extended the remand of the MIM MLA Akbaruddin Owaisi, arrested for his hate speech, till February 5.

As the earlier remand ended on Tuesday, Akbar was brought to Nirmal from the Adilabad district jail amid tight security and produced before the court here.

After his remand was extended, he was taken back to the Adilabad jail.