dacoity
- n robbery by a gang of armed dacoits
- Clearly, Sir Henry meant Burma's powerful nationalist movement, whose leader, youthful (31) U Aung San, has vehemently denied any connection with dacoity.
- The book offers help on the more recherch crimesdacoity ("armed robbery by five or more persons") or embracery (an attempt to corrupt or influence juries).
- 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.