Silver bricks worth over Rs 90 cr found in Puri mutt

Five hundred and twenty-two pieces of silver bricks,weighing about 18.17 tonnes and estimated to be worth over Rs 90 crore at the current market rates,were found at a 300-year-old mutt in Puri on Saturday.

Five hundred and twenty-two pieces of silver bricks,weighing about 18.17 tonnes and estimated to be worth over Rs 90 crore at the current market rates,were found at a 300-year-old mutt in Puri on Saturday.

The silver bricks were found in a windowless and doorless room of the Emar Mutt,in front of the 12th century Sri Jagannath Temple here. The mutt is governed by the Orissa Religious Hindu Endowment Act and is under the Jagannath temple administration.

Puri SP Sanjay Kumar said the bricks,reported to be 99.92 per cent pure silver,were recovered after a person was arrested in Dhenkanal while selling a few such bricks. The person said he found the bricks in a room of the mutt while doing some repair work there a few months ago, said Kumar. We found several such bricks in that room. While some bore the mark of the Bank of Shanghai,others had the Bank of Canada mark.

According to the SP,when the inventory of the mutt was done in June last year,the bricks were not mentioned.

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