Twenty years ago, dacoits struck at a bungalow off a highway near Chennai and killed one of its occupants, K. Sudarsanam, a sitting MLA. They attacked other members of the house brutally and fled with the loot. Investigators later realised that the gang had committed a rash of robberies across a vast territory in Tamil Nadu, stretching to the borders of Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka. A Chennai court last week convicted three members of the Bawaria gang responsible for the daring robberies and sentenced them to several life terms in prison. R. Sivaraman recounts a shocking crime spree 

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