SUBANG JAYA, Nov 28 — The remand order for the lawyer and his acquaintance accused of hiring thugs to terrorise a temple in Subang has been extended until Saturday, Selangor police chief Datuk Mazlan Mansor said today.

"They are not two lawyers, only one lawyer. The other guy is the friend to the lawyer.

"Remand has been extended until Saturday,” Mazlan said, adding that the initial remand order expired today.

He said the lawyer and his friend are being investigated under Section 148 of the Penal Code for rioting.

Mazlan said police are still on the lookout for others who were behind the protest, which saw one fireman critically injured and currently fighting for his life at the National Heart Institute (IJN).

Earlier today, Home Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin disclosed that a private firm allegedly gave RM150,000 to two lawyers who then used part of the money to hire around 50 youths to take possession of the land on which the temple sits.

Muhyiddin said the information was gleaned from preliminary police investigations and questioning of the two lawyers who were among the now 30 people arrested and remanded over the unrest.

It has since been clarified that only one of them is a lawyer while the other person is an acquaintance.  

Two law firms had since come out to deny hiring thugs for the under-fire One City.

In a brief statement, law firm Skrine denied that its lawyers were the ones referred to by Muhyiddin, despite its current involvement with the developer.

In a separate statement, law firm Thomas Philip clarified it had stopped representing the developer in 2015 after the judgement involving the land dispute was delivered.

One City has also insisted that its personnel onsite were merely directed to assist and support the relocation of the temple, and denied hiring any thugs.