On December 17, a 150 year old ruined Banke Bihari temple was found in Mohalla Laxman Ganj. Sanatan Sevak Sangh workers had given an application to DM Rajendra Pansia on Sampoorna Samadhan Diwas on Saturday, claiming to renovate the temple and having a stepwell in the vacant plot located in the street near the temple.
On the orders of the DM, digging was started on the same day and the stepwell came into existence. When the walls of the stepwell were visible on the first day, the digging accelerated. On the second day of excavation, the gates of the rooms and a tunnel-like corridor behind the gate also became visible. On the third day, stairs to descend inside the stepwell became visible.
On the fourth day, 13 stairs became clearly visible. Excavation work is going on daily from 10 am to 6 pm. On Wednesday, the fifth day, the floor of the upper floor became visible. There is a red stone floor. There are six carved gates on both sides adjacent to the stairs. The five gates are plain.
There is a room-like corridor behind it. The ASI team arrived in the afternoon and investigated after removing the soil from the floor. The height of the linter from the floor is said to be around ten and a half feet.
It is said that there is another floor below the upper floor and there is a well below it. Around which there are stairs. The work of removing soil was stopped at 4 pm on Wednesday. On the morning of the sixth day, the municipal team started removing soil from the upper floor.