Gaibandha: A Gaibandha court on Sunday placed 10 leaders and activists of Jamaat-e-Islami on a one-day police custody for interrogation in connection with the murder of Awami League lawmaker Manzurul Islam Liton.

Senior Judicial Magistrate Mainul Hasan Yousuf passed the order after Atiar Rahman, officer-in-charge of Sundarganj Police Station, produced them before the court seeking a 7-day remand.

Police arrested them from different areas of the upazila in connection with the murder.

The Awami League MP was shot dead at Bamandanga village in Sundarganj upazila on December 31.