Indira Gandhi's government jailed Jaipur's Rajmata and searched Jaigarh Fort for treasure for five months, and found none

Gayatri Devi, widow of Maharaja Man Singh II of Jaipur, sat in Parliament for the opposition Swatantra Party. During the Emergency she was arrested in July 1975 under COFEPOSA, a smuggling and foreign exchange law, and held in Tihar Jail for about five and a half months^†. The government seized about 800 kg of gold from the family^†. From 10 June to November 1976 income tax officers searched Jaigarh Fort above Amber for the rumoured Kachwaha treasure. In 1977 a member asked in the Lok Sabha whether the Delhi to Jaipur road had been closed to move army trucks of treasure to Indira Gandhi's house. No treasure was found. She died on 29 July 2009 with an estate reported at £250 million. Her only son, Jagat Singh, had died in 1997, and his children, Devraj and Lalitya, fought their father's half-brothers for control of the family hotel companies, Jai Mahal Hotels and Rambagh Palace Hotel. The case went to the Company Law Board in 2011, the Delhi High Court in 2012, the Supreme Court in 2015 and the company appeals tribunal in 2020. In 2025 the current family asked the Supreme Court to let them sue the state for Jaipur's old Town Hall, listed as private property in a 1949 covenant.