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	Dacoits gun down 8 persons in UP
		Dacoits on Thursday gunned down eight persons and injured three in Kalinjar town of Banda district in southern Uttar Pradesh.
		The dacoits forced them out of their vehicle, ordered them to line up in a row and shot them," a senior police official said.
		The Dadua gang is suspected to be behind the crime as he is known to operate in the area.
	www.rediff.com /news/2003/jan/24up.htm (186 words)

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		The dacoits were all captured and confessed their guilt as to the murder of the palki-bearers and the probable death of the two durwans, who, they averred, had fought like tigers.
		She had witnessed the fight between the durwans and dacoits and the flight and pursuit of her mistress.
		The dacoit, more dead than alive from simple fear of the snake's fatal sting, yielded himself a prisoner, and it was subsequently discovered that the whole gang, of whom he was a member, were licensed hackney drivers.
	www.gutenberg.org /dirs/1/0/9/2/10928/10928.txt (20711 words)

	Crime News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The deceased dacoits were identified as Mohammad Ripon (24), son of Alauddin, of Char Wareshpur, Mohammad Jewel (25), son of Akkas Ripon (25), son of Wajed Ali, both hailing from the Mohammadpur area, and Rahat (30).
		Two of the dacoits injured in the mob beating were identified as Shaheen (25), son of Sohrab Bepari of Naria Thana in Shariatpur and Noor-un-Nabi (26) son of Abdul Motaleb of Boropara, Borhanuddin in Bhola district.
		Shaheen, one of the arrested dacoits, claimed that he was a businessman and the dacoits forced him to join the dacoity.
	independent-bangladesh.com /news/nov/03/03112004cr.htm (1300 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : Bengal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Dacoits raided a house on August 13 and looted jewellery worth Rs 5 lakh, other valuables and cash.
		But one of the dacoits, Jaan Mohammad, was shot dead by the owner of the house.
		“A group of male dacoits was beating up my husband and a woman in her mid-30s was standing in the middle of the room, directing others what to take and what not to.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1040826/asp/bengal/story_3677238.asp (508 words)

	BHIND
		The district is dominated by the Thakurs and Brahmins.
		In the long history of eradication of dacoits police has set an unique example of obedience, courage, high devotion to be followed.
		This is note worthy in the year 1972 and 1982 due to police pressure and constant trials twice the defamed dangerous dacoits have in the Chambal area.
	www.bhind.nic.in /dacoitry.html (470 words)

	.:: THE BANGLADESH OBSERVER - Net Edition ::. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Receiving the news on July 11, that a gang of 20/25 dacoits attacked the houses of Abdur Rab Howlader, Tayeb Ali Mridha, Abdur Razzak Howlader of Durgapur village and Sahida Begum, Sekander Talukder of north Rampur village under Mirzagonj upazila.
		The dacoits opened five rounds of blank fire and blasted ten bombs in front of the shop to create panic among the people and decamped with the booty.
		The dacoits entered the houses by breaking open the doors and looted a cash of Tk 1,30,000 golden ornaments (22 tolas) and other valuables worth over Tk 3 lakh.
	www.bangladeshobserveronline.com /new/2004/07/26/district.htm (1418 words)

	Pakistan - Dacoits
		Many dacoits are professional bandits aligned along tribal lines who hold normal day jobs and then head out into the country for a little extra cash at night.
		Unlike the greasy thugs of Russia or the gold-toothed banditos of Mexico, dacoits are usually bad guys for hire led by educated or civil service level young men.
		Expect to be a well-treated but powerless pawn, as the dacoits negotiate with the strapped local government (not your fat, rich, home government) for payment for your release.
	www.comebackalive.com /df/dplaces/pakistan/dthing3.htm (253 words)

	Bangladeshi dacoits raid house, six arrested (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		According to the police, the dacoits entered the house of Surender Aggarwal, a resident of E Block in Preet Vihar and owner of sanitary fittings factory at Dilshad Garden, around 11-30 p.m.
		The dacoits climbed the boundary wall of the house from the backside which faces a railway track.
		He was forced by the dacoits to go into the room where Surender, his wife and his 11-year-old son, Shubham, were sleeping.
	www.hvk.org /articles/0403/222.html (495 words)

	Dacoits rob teacher's house, stab sons; three nabbed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		NEW DELHI, April 6: Five armed dacoits broke into the Sharda Niketan house of a retired teacher, stabbed his sons and left with an unspecified amount of money early this morning.
		It was only when the dacoits entered the room of one of Narain's sons, Rajesh, that he woke up and put up a resistance.
		The police said that the three dacoits also sustained injuries in the process and had to be hospitalised in the Deen Dayal Upadhyaya hospital.
	www.financialexpress.com /ie/daily/19990407/ige07151.html (388 words)

	Indiainfo.com -> News -> India -> Bengal cops kill 3 dacoits in encounter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Krishnagar(West Bengal): Three dacoits were killed and another injured in an encounter with police at Nanapatipara under Chakdah police station on September 30.
		Undaunted, the dacoits fired three rounds from their pipeguns at the policemen who retaliated by firing 12 rounds.
		Pawar said in the exchange of fire three dacoits were killed on the spot, while other members of the gang fled.
	newsarchives.indiainfo.com /2001/09/30/30dacoits.html (160 words)

	Local News [The Kathmandu Post (Nepal)]
		Therefore, people living in the outskirts of the city have locked their houses and have taken shelter in rented houses in safer parts of the city to protect their lives and property.
		Dacoits attacked the houses of Padam Bahadur Thapa, Bishnu Shrestha and Bir Bahadur Chaudhari of Biratnagar Madhumara -11 about a week ago.
		We hear that the same dacoits commit dacoity in another house the same night after they are released," police source complained.
	www.nepalnews.com /contents/englishdaily/ktmpost/2001/may/may31/local.htm (2853 words)

	Dacoits kill UNDP official, bus passenger: 3 dacoits lynched by villagers
		Dacoits killed a programme officer of UNDP and a bus passenger, and injured 10 others while the angry people killed three dacoits in reprisal on Friday night here.
		The dead dacoits were identified as Selim (32) of village Kagmari of Jhikargachha thana, Jessore, Goljar Hossain Rabiul (45) of village Mattam Ganga of Khan Jahan Ali thana, Bagerhat, and Aslam (30), of South Amra Gachhi of Mirjaganj thana, Patuakhali.
		The arrested were identified as Selim Sheikh (32), brother of Goljer Hossain, micro bus driver Azizul Ali of Dewli Khan Para of Singair thana, Manikganj, Milon Hawlader (30) of village north Amragachhi of Mirjaganj thana of Patuakhali and Abdus Sobhan (30) of village Parbazar of Jhikargachha thana.
	nation.ittefaq.com /artman/publish/article_36032.shtml (587 words)

	Bloody chambal: Why dacoits rule the ravines : HindustanTimes.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The Gadaria gang, led by brothers Rambabu and Dayaram, is the most elusive and dreaded of the dozen-odd dacoit gangs that operate in the area.
		As per police figures, 390 dacoits have been killed in 472 encounters in the past 15 years.
		Senior police officials say that poverty, lack of employment opportunities, poor living conditions due to the harsh terrain, extreme forms of casteism and a mindset shaped with folklore that gives dacoits a larger than life image is responsible for the situation.
	www.hindustantimes.com /news/5922_1083632,0006.htm (424 words)

	Former bandits, once dreaded, to act in new Bollywood film
		However, Mishra's leading actors _ Shyam Jatav and female bandit Neelam _ are currently incarcerated, and he said he plans to seek bail to free them for the duration of the filming.
		Dacoits have for centuries been feared and celebrated in India's rural hinterland, and their exploits have been romanticized in several Bollywood movies.
		Some are portrayed as ruthless murderers and rapists on horseback, while others are warm-hearted Robin Hoods forced into a life of crime by circumstances outside their control.
	www.freenewmexican.com /readerblogs/42900.html (640 words)

	Phoolan Devi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Still extant are dacoits, armed bands who live in remote areas and make a living by sticking up entire villages, and through kidnapping and hijacking.
		While being reviled as brigands, dacoits are often regarded as heroes by lower castes, from whom they draw most of their members.
		Then a gang of dacoits abducted her, and the gang's high-caste leader raped and brutalized her for three days.
	www.goodbyemag.com /jul01/devi.html (1550 words)

	They Gave Peace a Chance
		Twenty dacoits surrendered their arms before him: it was a triumph of non-violence and human good sense.
		The dacoits had to be traced in their hideouts, deep in the jungles and ravines.
		The dacoits formally surrendered in batches at the Mahatma Gandhi Seva Ashram in Joura, on 14 and 16 April 1972.
	www.mkgandhi.org /short/ev31.htm (739 words)

	Pakistan Link Headlines (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Three dacoits in the guise of militia men entered the house of Sanober and started looting the inmates.
		In the meanwhile, the neighbors informed the police about the dacoits and on their arrival the outlaws also opened fire at the police, which they retaliated.
		Ishtiaq claimed the dacoits were involved in cases of robbery and dacoity and wanted to Yakkatoot, Bhana Mari and Badaber police stations since long.
	www.pakistanlink.com /headlines/Feb/09/08.html (207 words)

	The Two Ways: Chapter 8
		But the funny thing is that even though everyone knows that all these five dacoits are plundering them day and night, and there is no happiness with them, still people are letting them plunder them.
		These five dacoits have destroyed everyone's peace, but still people are allowing them to remain within them.
		Someone is conquered by one of the five dacoits and someone is conquered by the other.
	www.geocities.com /anulbird/2ways8.htm (5492 words)

	The Nation
		According to the informed sources, three alleged dacoits Waheed, Shabbir and Rana Shafqat were in police custody for the last couple of weeks and they were interrogated at an undisclosed location.
		The sources revealed that the wireless system received a call at 10:15 am that three dacoits were shot dead in encounter in Manawan area but later it was maintained that it was a fake call.
		that three dacoits were shot dead in an encounter with the CIA Cantonment police and the top police officials including the SSP Investigations, were directed to rush to the spot”, the sources revealed.
	www.nation.com.pk /daily/oct-2004/25/index5.php (905 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : Opinion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		And though about 400 dacoits have been killed over the last 15 years, the crime rate shows little signs of dipping.
		The dacoits have developed a system under which agents do the pakad (local lingo for kidnapping) for as little as Rs 5,000.
		K.K. Dubey, who encountered a gang of dacoits in the 1960s, recalls that the earlier bandits were more civilised.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1041114/asp/opinion/story_4002976.asp (1422 words)

	.:: THE BANGLADESH OBSERVER - Net Edition ::. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Three alleged criminals including a father and his son were killed and three others received severe bullet injuries in a fierce gunfight between the members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) and a gang of dacoits at Tongi in the outskirts of the capital in the small hours of Friday.
		RAB was informed that a gang of 10 to 12 dacoits sitting in the residence of some Delwar Hossain had been planning for committing dacoities in the area.
		RAB also arrested seven other dacoits from the spot and recovered two revolvers with six rounds of bullet, two knives and a machete from their possession.
	www.bangladeshobserveronline.com /new/2004/11/20/national.htm (1016 words)

	Dacoits loot goods worth Rs 1.5 lakh in Mhow, shoot at villagers : HindustanTimes.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		THERE WAS palpable anger among the villagers of Gawli Palasiya against the police for their failure to take decisive action when around 12 armed dacoits looted cash and jewellery worth over Rs 1.5 lakh from a house and injured 21 villagers who tried to resist them.
		Seeing this, the dacoits started firing indiscriminately with their 12 bore guns and injured 21 persons, including two policemen. While all this was going on, some villagers tried to call the police over phone, but they did not respond.
		Though the marauding dacoits continued their rampage for over an hour, the police failed to act.
	www.hindustantimes.com /2004/Oct/15/5922_1058514,0015002100000001.htm (378 words)

	The Hindu : Escaped dacoits shot dead
		Four dacoits, who had escaped from the Jeedimetla police station in the early hours of Friday, were shot dead by the police the same night.
		The slain dacoits were said to be involved in over 50 property offences in the State and in the border areas of Karnataka and Maharashtra.
		When asked about the escape of the dacoits from the Jeedimetla police station, he said the Balanagar DSP was probing the lapse.
	www.hinduonnet.com /2000/05/07/stories/0407201b.htm (367 words)

	Three killed as dacoits strike
		This is the third major incident in the recent past wherein a family has been brutally targeted by the dacoits.
		As many as eight dacoits armed with sticks and iron rods attacked the house of Rama Dinkar Dhumal and thrashed the inmates.
		The dacoits, interestingly, did not choose posh houses, but attacked residences of petty farm workers or such people.
	www.expressindia.com /ie/daily/19980520/14051944.html (386 words)

	Four slain dacoits were poisoned, allege families (New Kerala, India's Top News Channel) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Morena (MP), May 26 : Families of four slain dacoits of inter-state Dhuanram Gurjar gang have alleged that they were poisoned by informers in Rajasthan, while police refuted their claims stating that the outlaws were killed in an encounter in jungles of Shobrankapura village near here.
		The Rajasthan-based dacoits were active in Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh, Gupta said adding, the gang members used to go back to Rajasthan after committing crimes in Madhya Pradesh.
		Over a dozen cases of dacoity, abduction and other offences were registered against the gang in Morena district alone and its members had allegdly kidnapped a teacher from the area recently and later released him on payment of ransom, he said.
	www.newkerala.com /news.php?action=fullnews&id=2811 (282 words)

	Crime News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Dec 16: One dacoit was beaten to death by
		dacoits then attempted to flee, but the villagers chased them.
		The dacoits caught are: Sultan, 22, son of Delwar Hossain of
	independent-bangladesh.com /news/dec/17/17122004cr.htm (727 words)

	Dacoits (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		He felt his life’s earning and saving is very low to his expectations and not sufficient he tried hard and sometime he felt “why these well educated ppl of society who are much well settled than him are begging/ bargaining for dowry to marry his daughter.
		He felt these are not human being they are dacoits who some time not only loots but kills leaving no mark behind.
		Anyway the father at last succeeded to find a suitable groom (dacoit) for his daughter.
	o3.indiatimes.com /dacoits (917 words)

	The Hindu : Karnataka / Bangalore News : Man foils dacoits' bid to loot his house
		BANGALORE: A man opened fire at a gang of armed dacoits and foiled an attempt to loot his house in Anekal police station limits in Bangalore Rural district early on Friday.
		the dacoits struck at the farmhouse of Ramaiah, an agriculturist and owner of a tiles factory, on the outskirts of Anekal.
		After the dacoits ran away, Ramaiah and Sathyanarayana went to the backyard of their house and found bloodstains on the ground in the cowshed.
	www.hindu.com /2005/07/16/stories/2005071617270300.htm (419 words)

	The Hindu : Andhra Pradesh / Hyderabad News : Suspected dacoits kill two security guards of soap unit
		Double murder most macabre unfolded for the second time in a week on the outskirts of city when a suspected dacoit gang killed two security guards of a detergent manufacturing unit by slitting their throats at Shamshabad village in the wee hours of Wednesday.
		The fact that dacoits took away copper coils from an adjoining electric transformer in the previous incident and tried in vain to pull out copper material from a transformer in the Shamshabad factory strengthened the suspicion, the Shamshabad Sub-Inspector, R. Sanjay Kumar, said.
		After the duo fell on their feet pleading not to kill them, the dacoits herded Choube into a room and tied Yadav's hands with ropes and left.
	www.hindu.com /2004/09/09/stories/2004090914110300.htm (403 words)

	The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Chandigarh Stories
		The dacoits believed to be 10 to 12 in numbers were armed with batons and iron rods.
		Mr Harmel Singh, his wife and their three children were sleeping in the compound of their house when the dacoits struck at 2.30 am (the victims or their family members could not tell the exact time of the incident).
		Later it was found that the dacoits had broken a cot lying near a tubewell (about a km from the village) and carried the wooden parts along with them before striking at Mr Harmel Singh’s house.
	www.tribuneindia.com /2003/20030726/cth1.htm (7928 words)

	NDTV.com: Dacoits intimidate voters in UP
		The politician-criminal nexus is well known but in the badlands of Uttar Pradesh dacoit gangs use guns and threats to bring in the voters.
		Dadua, an infamous dacoit, was with the BSP in the last elections.
		The might of many dacoits and gang leaders in this region have also been used by political parties to win elections.
	www.ndtv.com /convergence/ndtv/story.aspx?id=NEWEN20070008505 (515 words)

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