Pakistan Petition Demands Return of Koh-i-Noor from Britain

(IDEX Online News) – A Pakistani barrister has filed a court petition seeking the return of the Koh-i-Noor diamond to Pakistan from the Queen.

Jawaid Iqbal Jafree named the Queen as a respondent in the petition submitted this week in the Pakistani city of Lahore, according to a report in The Daily Telegraph. Jafree has written nearly 800 petitions to the Queen and Pakistani officials over the last half century, calling for the diamond’s return.

Jafree alleges that the stone was grabbed and illegitimately acquired, and should not be considered “a spoil of war.”

In November, a group of Bollywood celebrities and Indian businesspeople called for the return of the gemstone to India. The group, which is called the Mountain of Light (the translation of Koh-i-Noor), alleges that the diamond was stolen from India.