WikiPedia definition of "dacoity"
Dacoity is criminal activity involving robbery by groups of armed bandits. The word "Dacoity" is the anglicized version of the Indian word ḍakaitī (historically spelled dakaitee, ...
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This aspect distinguishes Thuggee from similar concept of dacoity, which means simple armed robbery. Dacoity has similarities with the terms brigand and bandit from European and Latin ...
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This encounter ended over two years of urban dacoity and crime by him. It is generally believed that it was the underworld don Varadarajan Mudaliar who tipped off the police about ...
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... known for his suppression of the Thuggee secret society, becoming superintendent of the operations against them in 1835, and commissioner for the suppression of Thuggee and Dacoity ...
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Kartik moved his headquarters to Telinipara, near Chandernagore, before proceeding to the Bighati dacoity on 16 September 1908. At Bighati in Hooghly, noted Denham, a rich man ...
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The case for the Kakori dacoity was concluded by awarding death sentence to Pandit Ram Prasad Bismil, Ashfaqulla Khan, Rajendra Lahiri and Thankur Roshan Singh.
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The court is responsible for cases relating to murders, theft, dacoity, pick-pocketing and other such cases. In Mumbai there are three courts, the main one being in the Kala Ghoda ...
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By then the Maduari Meenakshiamman temple was in dire straits, with the temple lands occupied and plundered by hoodlums; looting and dacoity rampant in countryside.
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... courts.Magistrate with power of section 30 of Cr.P.C can hear all matter and offences of criminal nature, where there is no death penalty (such as attempted murder,dacoity,robbery ...
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While Behram is sometimes credited with 931 murders, James Paton, an East India Company officer working for the Thuggee and Dacoity Office in the 1830s who wrote a manuscript on ...
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