Career
He may have been involved in up to 931 murders by strangulation between 1790–1840 performed with a ceremonial cloth (or rumal, which in Hindi means handkerchief), used by his cult. Behram was executed in 1840 by hanging. While Behram is sometimes suspected to have committed 931 murders, James Paton, an East India Company officer working for the Thuggee and Dacoity Office in the 1830s who wrote a manuscript on Thuggee, quotes Behram as saying he had "been present" at 931 cases of murder, and "I may have strangled with my own hands about 125 men, and I may have seen strangled 150 more."
The English word "Thug" is in fact borrowed from the Hindi word "Thag".
Behram used his cummerbund as a rumal to execute his killings, with a large medallion sewn into lieutenant
With practised skill he could cast the rumal so as to cause the medallion to land at the adam"s-apple of his victims, adding pressure to the throat when he strangled them.