KANPUR: Chaos prevailed and people thronged to the site after a pitcher filled with ancient coins was found during digging work for the widening of GT Road in Raipur village in Sikandarpur area in Chhibramau police station limits of Kannauj district on Monday evening.
The local sources added, the bulldozer and truck drivers, who were doing the digging work allegedly fled with the pitcher containing ancient coins. “While fleeing, some coins that fell from the pitcher were collected by the villagers. As soon as the news spread in the area, people thronged the site and started looking for the coins at the digging site,” sources added.
The ancient coin
Later, the Archaeological department was informed and the district and police officials started the investigation. The police are now looking for the bulldozer and the truck drivers and have also seized coins found from the villagers. A bulldozer driver and a truck driver digging mud for widening of GT road at Sikandarpur area under Chhibramau police station discovered a pitcher containing ancient coins on Monday evening, officials said.
The two allegedly took the pitcher in their possession and ran away from the scene, they said and added, “Few locals however found some coins that probably had fallen from the pitcher.” In the meantime, someone informed the district officials and police, who rushed to the spot and launched an investigation.
The police conducted raids and managed to recover the coins from the villagers, but could not trace the whereabouts of the bulldozer and truck drivers. Villagers said that they have also given information about the incident to the Archaeological Department of India.
SDM Chhibramau Devesh Kumar Gupta said that the investigation in this regard is underway. “We have sent a revenue department team including a tehsildar to the spot.” Tehsildar Abhimanyu Kumar meanwhile told reporters that after inspecting the spot, investigation will be done by the Archaeological Department.
“A clear picture would emerge only after the thorough investigation,” he said.
