Kohinoor was surrendered by Maharaja of Lahore to British: ASI
The government had said that Maharaja Ranjit Singh’s kin had given the Kohinoor to the British as “voluntary compensation”.. But the Archeological Survey of India has contradicted the government’s stand by stating in a recent RTI reply that the diamond was in fact “surrendered” by the Maharaja of Lahore to Queen Victoria of England.