Watch exclusive pics of gold treasure baba Shobhan Sarkar

New Delhi: Shobhan Sarkar, the man who triggered a massive hunt by Archeological Survey of India for the imaginary 1,000 tonnes of gold said to be hidden inside the earth on the grounds of an old crumbling fort in Daundiya Kheda, has been seen for the first time on camera. There is a popular belief among his followers that clicking baba brings bad omen. So till now there were no photos of Shobhan Sarkar. Sadhu Shobhan Sarkar is a man aged above sixty years, and proclaims himself to be a devotee of Lord Hanuman. His hermitage stands at Shobhan village which is about 25 km to the west from Kanpur in UP. There are temples of Lord Ram and Hanuman. His followers and devotees call him 'Swamiji' 'Sarkar' and 'Bhagwan'. In recent time he came to the limelight when he disclosed that he had a dream about a thousand ton gold buried in the fort of Raja Rao Baksh Singh a revolutionary of 1857 freedom struggle, who was hanged by the British. Sitting on a mat under a peepal tree, Sarkar claimed that the king's spirit would soon be liberated from the cycle of birth and death because his last wish would be fulfilled. For the record, Rao Ram Baksh Singh, the king of the area, was hanged to death by the British rulers after the revolt of 1857. His devotees claim that the sadhu's predictions are precise.