Police detained three suspected muggers from Sonargaon upazila in Narayanganj district on Wednesday morning.
The detanees are: Md Hridoy Hossain, 22, Younus Mahmud Bijoy, 26, and Jasim Uddin, 26.
Sonargaon Police Station OC Hafizur Rahman said on information that a gang of muggers were preparing to commit snatching, a police team conducted a drive in Kanchpur area on the Dhaka-Chattogram highway.
They tried to flee sensing the presence of the team. But, the law enforcers caught three of them and recovered a sharp weapon and Tk 1,100 in cash from their possessions.
A case was filed with the police station, he added.