The Indian government is digging for treasure after a civic-minded Hindu village sage proved that 1,000 tonnes of gold was buried under a ruined palace, and wrote to tell the central bank about it with all the proof of maps and convincing Documents. The state Archaeological Survey of India has sent a team of archaeologists to the village of Daundia Khera in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh . They are due to start digging on Friday. Yogi Swami Shobhan Sarkar says the gold he dreamed of belonged to a nineteenth-century ruler, Rao Ram Bux Singh. He says he wants it in government hands to help India recover from an economic crisis. “I cried the day I realised that India is going to collapse economically,” the seer told . The dead ruler’s spirit has been roaming the palace and asking for the gold to be dug up, he added. The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) has begun clearing the points marked for excavation around the fort of King Ram Bux Singh, a martyr of the muti...
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