Gang after gang was captured, tried, and punished.

The Thugs were harried and hunted from one end of India to the other.

The government got all their secrets out of them; and also got the names of the members of the bands, and recorded them in a book, together with their birthplaces and places of residence.
The Thugs were worshipers of Bhowanee; and to this god they sacrificed anybody that came handy; but they kept the dead man's things themselves, for the god cared for nothing but the corpse.

Men were initiated into the sect with solemn ceremonies.

Then they were taught how to strangle a person with the sacred choke-cloth, but were not allowed to perform officially with it until after long practice.