A 42.59-carat rough diamond discovered in October this year in the Panna district of Madhya Pradesh has been sold at auction for Rs 2.55 crore or Rs 6 lakh a carat, according to media reports. While the diamond was owned by two labourers, Motilal and Raghuveer Prajapati, who had leased the small plot of land […]

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BHOPAL: Family of a laborer in Panna on Tuesday was celebrating Diwali almost a month before the festival of lights and prosperity. Motilal Prajapati, 30, has found a fortune when he dug out one of the biggest diamonds in the history of Panna’s shallow diamond mines. The diamond mined by Motilal weighed 42.9 carats, second […]

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