Guptadhan – Many become millionaires by selling hidden treasures
Tanvir Alam, Roving Correspondent (North Bengal) :
Excavating the soil, precious stones are being found out. Several millionaires have survived.
Stones are found by digging up the soil at Porsha Nitpur in Naogaon district. West Raghunathpur Purnabhaba River often covers a 3 km area where soil is now worth more than the price of gold.
These stones are being sold in China and Thailand for dollars first in Bogura then in Dhaka.
In this way, for two years, about two hundred people have been digging the soil with all their family members without eating or drinking day and night. According to Guptadhaan standards, the stones are being sold from 300 taka to 600,000 taka.
It has been revealed that four years ago, a person found some valuable resources while cutting the soil in the Vita area called Tektha.
When this news spread in the area, hundreds of people started digging the ground. Since then, every morning, the locals are busy digging the soil with Spades and shovels. These valuable treasures can be found only by digging the ground about four to five feet below.
Excavation of the soil can find valuable resources, including small and large stones. Gold ornaments, chains, coins, amulets, stones, silver pens etc. Each of them has a different colour.
Which one is red, black, white, orange and green. Gold ornaments are not sold and kept with themselves.
But any stone is sold as soon as it is small or big. Customers are always there. If each stone is approximately 10 grams, its value is around five to six lakh taka.
Amir Uddin, a resident of the local village, said that about 50 years ago people of the Hindu community lived in that village. There was a big Kalimandir there. Regular puja-archana was performed in the mandir.
Maybe there was a bazaar around this temple. Hindus migrated to India during partition. They may not have taken many of their valuables with them. Later their houses and temples were demolished and valuables were buried underground.
Another local villager Humayan Reza said that during the reign of Emperor Sher Shah about 650 years ago, the whole of India was divided into 47 parganas. One of the parganas is the place called Rokanpur beside Thana Gomstapur of Porsha.
Later, during the reign of Emperor Shahjahan’s son Sujauddin, there was a maritime area from far Rajmahal to Rokanpur. Suja was the Subedar of Bengal then. At that time many goods were imported and exported here by boat or ship.
Maybe in some accident the treasures of the emperors were buried under the ground next to this temple. The Kali temple of the Hindus was located at the place where the rocks are rising in the area next to the river.
As proof of which a well called Kalidah still exists in the river. There they used to sacrifice the idol of ‘Mother Kali’ after the puja. So it is not impossible that many valuable gems are lying underground.
Monirul Islam from Neighbouring village Bishnapur said that he has been digging the soil for the last three days. He got a jelliball there. He sold it to Jamirul, a local treasure merchant, for one lakh and sixty thousand taka.
Rustam Ali from Nitpur found a treasure stone with a white spot in the center like a piece of shiny glass. It was sold to Ujjal and Mister, treasure traders of Bogura’s Mahasthan Gar area.
Local Nazrul Islam said that he sold a (DZI stone) Jalli Potol and a football for three lakh taka to Mohsin, a treasure trader in Natar Singhra area and Abul Hossain, a trader at DCC Market in Dhaka Gulsan-2.
A young man named Tofail said that after digging for seven days, he found a kula lattice last Thursday afternoon. Atabul, the smuggler and treasure dealer there, sold it to Samser and Zakir, traders of DCC Market in Dhaka Gulsan-2, through Sabuj of Bogura Nandigram for seven lakh taka.
Maidul Ilam, a member of the union council of the area, said that since the last four years, hundreds of ordinary people have dug the ground and removed the valuable secret resources under the ground, but the local administration has not taken any measures to stop their extraction.
He demanded to stop extraction of valuable resources and take action against those involved. He also commented that digging there under government initiative will bring out something valuable.
In this regard, Porsha upazila Nirbahi officer (UNO) Arif Adnan said, I do not know about this matter. After looking into the matter, necessary action will be taken through senior officers, Directorate of Archaeology Department and DC.
Many millionaires including Ujjal, Mister, Amirul, Jamirul, Atabul, Mosaddek, Sabuj, Mohsin, Zafar, Abul, Zakir, Samser have been mentioned in the news.
