7 uber expensive gifts Indian billionaires gifted their families

Moneycontrol News, April 2, 2024

In 2019, Akash Ambani tied the knot with diamond heiress Shloka Mehta, his mother Nita Ambani presented her with the most valuable necklace in the world -- the Mouawad L’Incomparable -- a Rs 451 crore necklace with 91 diamonds.

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After Isha Ambani tied the knot with and Anand Piramal in 2018, his parents, Ajay and Swati Piramal gifted the couple a 50,000 square feet mansion worth Rs 450 crore in South Mumbai’s Worli.

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Infosys co-founder Narayana Murthy recently gifted his newborn grandson company shares worth Rs 240 crore.

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HCL chairman Shiv Nadar had in 2014, bought a bungalow worth Rs 115 crore in the Friends Colony East area of Delhi and gifted it to his daughter Roshni Nadar Malhotra.

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In 2016, the CEO of Serum Institute of India, Adar Poonawalla,, got a Mercedes-Benz S-Class modified to look like the Batmobile and gifted it to his son Cyrus Jr. on his birthday.

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Mukesh Ambani and his wife Nita Ambani gifted their youngest son Anant and his fiancee Radhika Merchant a Bentley Continental GTC Speed worth around Rs 4.5 crore for their engagement.

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in 2015, Sun Pharma MD Dilip Shanghvi's mother Kumud S Shanghvi gifted around 31 lakh shares worth Rs 282 crore to her daughter-in-law Vibha D Shanghvi.

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