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dacoit

NOUN
  1. a member of an armed gang of robbers

How To Use dacoit In A Sentence

  • There have been several killings and dacoities on moving trains.
  • The year was 1985, and the town was under a scare of violent burglaries and dacoities targeting remote houses.
  • According to details, the aggrieved family of the deceased Muhammad Asim (26) told the newsmen that the Hajipura police had arrested him from his house in Gohdpur-Sialkot (about two weeks ago) for his suspect involvement in some dacoity cases. Protest people against unavailability of flour
  • Om Prakash Bansal, the owner of the factory, said the dacoity was a planned one. The Telegraph - Calcutta (Kolkata) - Frontpage
  • Murders, loots, dacoities and rapes have become the order of the day.
  • In 1825 it had been estimated that the Oudh forests alone contained from 4000 to 6000 dacoits, while the property stolen in 1811 from known dacoities was valued at ten lakhs of rupees. The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II
  • At the last count, dacoits have targeted as many as seven passenger trains passing through Bihar, the latest incident being on June 8 in Siwan district.
  • There have been only very few instances of dacoity in the city.
  • The 14th Lok Sabha, for example, had about 100 members who were involved in criminal cases — 30 of whom had been charged with murder, dacoity, rape and extortion. Archive 2009-08-01
  • Not a day passes without reports of mugging, murder, dacoity, extortion and kidnap making it to the front page.
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