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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Namita Singh

Two young Indian shopkeepers find diamond worth £50,000 in field

Two young friends in central India found a diamond valued at about £50,000, a rare windfall in one of the country’s most deprived districts.

Satish Khatik, 24, and Sajid Mohammed, 23, found the 15.3-carat stone while working a small plot of land they had leased only weeks earlier in Panna, a diamond-bearing district in the state of Madhya Pradesh. The discovery was confirmed after the pair took the stone to the Panna Diamond Office for evaluation.

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