Panchagarh: A court in Panchagarh on Saturday granted police 18 days to interrogate each of the three suspected members of banned militant outfit Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) in two cases over the murder of a Hindu priest at Debiganj.

Senior Judicial magistrate Marjia Khatun passed the order after Debiganj police inspector Aiyub Ali produced the ‘JMB’ men before the court.

They were held on Friday for their alleged involvement in the killing.

Rangpur superintendent of police (SP) Mohammad Giasuddin Ahmed on Friday said police also recovered two pistols, three magazines, a grenade, two cocktails, five bullets, and three knives from their possessions.

On 21 February, miscreants killed the head of a monastery by slitting his throat at Debiganj upazila in Panchagarh, about 475km northwest of capital Dhaka.

The deceased is Jaggeshwar Roy, believed to be in his fifties, the head of Sri Sri Santo Gourio monastery.

The miscreants also shot a saint, Gopal Chandra Roy, who is at his thirties, while left another man, named Nitai Pada Das, around 40, injured in a crude bomb attack.

Earlier, police held three suspected members of JMB and Islami Chhatra Shibir in this connection.