Supreme Court has agreed to hear a PIL seeking court monitoring of the digging being undertaken by the Archaeological Survey of India for gold at Daundia Khera village in Unnao district of Uttar Pradesh. A bench headed by Chief Justice P Sathasivam asked the petitioner to remove the defects in the petition which will be taken up for hearing next week.
The petition was filed by advocate ML Sharma who submitted that court monitoring is required in the case as the valuable resources might vanish.
The gold excavation is being carried out by the ASI after a seer, Shobhan Sarkar, dreamt that 1,000 tonnes of gold is buried near the fort of Raja Rao Ram Bux Singh in Daundia Khera village. Raja Rao Ram Bux Singh was a martyr of the 1857 revolt.
