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The Thuggee and Dacoity Suppression Acts, 1836–1848 in British India under East India Company rule were a series of legal acts that outlawed ''thugee''—a practice in North and Central India involving robbery and ritualized murder and mutilation on highways—and dacoity, a form of banditry prevalent in the same region, and prescribed punishment for the same. ==Act XXX, 1836== Title or Description: Provides for the trial and punishment of Thugs. Passed 14 November 1836. * I. It is hereby enacted, that whoever shall be proved to have belonged, either before or after the passing of this Act, to any gang of Thugs, either within or without the Territories of the East India Company, shall be punished with imprisonment for life, with hard labor. * II. And it is hereby enacted, that every person accused of the offence made punishable by this Act, may be tried by any Court, which would have been competent to try him, if his offence had been committed within the Zillah where that Court sits, any thing to the contrary, in any Regulation contained, notwithstanding. * III. And it is hereby enacted, that no Court shall, on a trial of any person accused of the offence made punishable by this Act, require any Futwa from any Law Officer. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Thuggee and Dacoity Suppression Acts, 1836–1848」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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