Mughal Administration c10.s6.29

c10.s6.29

10. A [suspected] strangler (i.e., thug) whose act of strangulation has [not] been legally proved, should be chastised (tazir) and confined till he repents. But if he is habituated to the work and the fact is proved, by legal evidence, or if he is well-known to the people and the governor of the province [for such deeds], or traces of the strangulation and the property of the [murdered] man are found on him, and the subahdar and the officers of the adalat feel a strong probability that he is the doer of such deeds, then execute him.