Villagers dug several acres of fields to find gold coins near Asirgarh Fort

Sandeep Paroha, Burhanpur. Hundreds of villagers are digging around Asirgarh Fort these days to find a store of Mughal Gold-Silver coins buried in the land. Their number is said to be more than five hundred. As soon as the evening falls, the villagers reach the torch, shovel, kudali, soil filtering and food and water. After this, the search for gold continues from two to three o’clock in the night. These include men, children and elderly along with men.

Claim to get Mughal coins

Due to the light of the torches, there is a feeling of having a settlement from a distance at night in the fields around the Asirgarh Fort. According to the villagers, many people have found Mughal gold coins, but no one is speaking openly. It is said that some people are even using a metal detector to find gold reserves. In the daylight, only thousands of pits are seen in the fields far and wide. However, no action of police and administration has been revealed in this regard so far.

Major pits occurred in several acres of land due to the dug in the greed of gold.

Excavation started three months ago

• The process of digging for coins near Asirgarh Fort started about three months ago.
• Then there was a rumor of getting gold coins in the ongoing excavation on the Indore-Ichhapur National Highway.
• According to sources, two farmers had received four kilos of gold during this period, but nothing was revealed in the police investigation.
• Since then, the work of digging in the fields around the fort had started.
• This trend has intensified since the last ten days. Now about five hundred people are reaching there for digging there.

Hundreds of villagers digging the ground in the light of torch at night.

Mint was near the fort during the Mughal period

• According to archeology Tourism and Culture Council (DATC) members Shalikram Chaudhary and Qamaruddin Falak, there used to be gold and silver coins near the Asirgarh Fort during the Mughal period.
• Due to this, large quantities of coins were kept around it. It is said that due to its destruction during the war, the gold reserves were buried in many places.
• This is what people are getting in excavation now. Shalikram Chaudhary says that there was a mint for about two and a half years.
• In this, coins were molded from the Mughal period to the Scindia period. Dr. Major Gupta and others also have such coins present with rare items.
• He has demanded that the administration should find this gold reserves through a metal detector and submit it to the treasury.

Mint mint of Mughal rulers located near Asirgarh Fort.

We will go to the spot and see what is the situation. If something like this is found, further action will be taken to the senior officials of the department. Historical coins are the heritage of the government.

– Vipul Meshram, Officer -in -Charge Archaeological Department.

We had earlier warned the administration that there could be a major incident in the greed of gold, but the officers did not take it seriously. Now hundreds of people are reaching to dig. This means that something is wrong.

– Ajay Raghuvanshi, former state general secretary Congress.