Video - The Growing Stick Mystery

One day, a wealthy man came to Akbar's court in hope to get help from Birbal. The man suspected that one of his servants had stolen from him. The clever Birbal thought of a plan and gave all the merchant’s servants sticks of the same length. He also told them that the stick will grow three inches by tomorrow if they were the thief. The next day, all the servants gathered around Birbal. He noticed that one of the servant’s sticks was three inches shorter than the others. Birbal immediately understood who the thief was. The thief had cut the stick shorter by three inches as he thought it would grow three inches. Because of this his guilt was proven Moral of the story The truth will always come out one way or another so better to be truthful from the beginning.