Chandragupta Maurya and His Times c12.s1.65

c12.s1.65

**Criminal Law.** The administration of Criminal Law is described by the technical term *Kaṇṭaka-Śodhana* [IV. 1]. Among the cases contemplated we may mention theft, murder, burglary, or forcible entry, poisoning, coining, injury to property, criminal negligence, contumelious violation of cast-rules, boycott, and other acts of employees, combinations to control prices, or fraud in regard to weights and measures. In all these matters, the magistrates (*Pradeshṭā*) or revenue and police officers, were assisted by an army of spies, and *agents provocateurs*, as we have already seen.