Like the Bollywood potboiler film Peepli Live, shops selling trinkets and food items have sprung up near the fort, where people till last week hardly used to visit.
The cynosure of all eyes is a shady sadhu named Shobhan Sarkar, who has dreamed up about a hanged 1857 martyr Raja telling him in sleep that 1,000 tonnes of gold lay hidden beneath the grounds of the fort.
One of his disciples contact the Union minister from Chhatisgarh Charan Das Mahant, who, in turn, pressurized the Archaeological Survey of India to take up the matter.
