No evidence exists for claims that describe, often in horrific detail, the deaths, dismemberments and mutilations which Shah Jahan supposedly inflicted on various architects and craftsmen associated with the tomb.
Un sen fin de historias describen, moitas veces con detalles horripilantes, a morte, desmembramento e mutilación que Shah Jahan tería inflixido a varios artesáns relacionados coa construción do mausoleo.