The CBI on Tuesday took the three accused in the Balasore triple-train crash on a four-day remand following their production in a local court here.

The central agency had sought five-day remand for senior section engineer (signal) Arun Kumar Mahanta, senior section engineer (signal) Mohammed Amir Khan and technician Pappu Kumar, but the court granted only four days.

While Mahanta has applied for bail, the other two have filed vakalatnama and handed over the power of attorney to their advocates.

The CBI had on July 7 arrested the three accused under sections 304 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder) and 201 (destruction of evidence) of the Indian Penal Code in an ongoing investigation of triple-train accident near Bahanaga Bazar station in Odisha’s Balasore district on June 2 that claimed 293 lives.

Following their arrest, the CBI had taken the trio on a five-day remand.