In Madhya Pradesh State, women belonging to a village defence group have been issued gun permits to fend off dacoity.
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Raped by a group of voyeurs, she blithely continued in her habits until her arrest in early 1979 on, ironically, a false charge of dacoity.
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Mosley has, among other things, assembled a wonderful collection of anecdotes about Allen and the international dacoity that he practiced.
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He was successful in maintaining law and order to the extent that there was not a single case of dacoity or of loot during the period from April 24 to May 4, 1945.
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Robbery by a gang of armed dacoits
Dacoity is a term used for "banditry" in Bengali, Hindi, Kannada and Urdu. The spelling is the anglicized version of the Hindustani word and as a colloquial Anglo-Indian word with this meaning, it appears in the Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases (1903). Banditry is criminal activity involving robbery by groups of armed bandits...