Phil in SF quoted Age of Vice by Deepti Kapoor
This is the age of vice, where money, pleasure, and power are everything, and the …
Four ran away together after stealing from their employers, and of those four, two were convicted of dacoity and murder and two were known to have been shot before ever reaching jail.
— Age of Vice by Deepti Kapoor (Page 67)
New word: dacoity
An act of violent robbery committed by an armed gang