Gaibandha: Law enforcers arrested three Jamaat‐e‐Islami activists in different parts of Sundarganj upazila early on Sunday in connection with the killing of Gaibandha‐1 Lawmaker Manjurul Islam Liton.

The arrestees are Habib, Joynal and Jahir.

Atiar Rahman, officer‐in‐charge of Sundarganj Police Station, said a team of police conducted raids at the houses of the trio in Belkhan, Tarapur and Haripur areas of the upazila and arrested them in the dead of night.

Earlier on 31 December, Liton was shot at point blank range by some miscreants at his village home at Masterpara of Sundarbans Upazila.

He was then rushed to Rangpur Medical College Hospital, where he succumbed to his injuries.