INDIAN GANGSTERS
ROBBERY WITH VIOLENCE ' LONG TRIAL ENDS. Press Association—By Telegraph—Sopyright. CALCUTTA, September 9. ‘(Received September 10, at 9 a.xn.) The biggest gangster trial in India in modern times has concluded at Calcutta. Ten bandits were sentenced to transportation for life, five to ten years’ rigorous imprisonment, and nineteen others to various terms. Altogether thirty-seven people were accused, of whom three turned King’s evidence. The trial, which occupied ten months, related to fifty-nine cases of robbery with violence in three provinces. The gang was formed from Bihar coal miners in 1919 and recruits were gathered from time to time. The gang had an clabor-. ate network of spies and bribed servants.
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Evening Star, Issue 21821, 10 September 1934, Page 9
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