Mumbai: The Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) Chairman and country’s richest man Mukesh Ambani’s eldest son Akash Ambani is going to be get married this year with diamond merchant Russel Mehta’s daughter Shloka Mehta by the end of the year, although the two families refused to comment on the wedding news.

Now if we will go with our sources, then Akash Ambani and Shloka Mehta’s engagement may be announced in next few upcoming weeks and their marriage is on the cards which are likely to take place in the beginning of December month.

Basically, the diamond merchant Russell Mehta is the head of Roxy Blue Diamon Company formerly known as B. Arunkumar & Co., which is now ranked among the top half dozen diamond companies of India.

The family lives in south Mumbai and both the families knows each other from past quite long time as Akash Ambani and his would be fiance Shloka Mehta completed their studies together from Dhirubhai Ambani International School.

Russel is the son of Arunkumar Ramniklal M., one of the co-founders of B. Arunkumar & Co., way back in 1960 in Opera House, Mumbai’s hub of diamond business.

The duo is described as among “the most respected diamond business families of India and around the world” by a close family friend.

“Shloka is a very charming girl, extremely cultured and its difficult to say which of the two families is lucky with this upcoming marriage,” said the family friend, requesting anonymity.

On other hand, a close source of the family says that no date has been fixed for Akash’s engagement and marriage till yet and whenever there is a good news in this regards it will be shared from family side with everyone.

Akash Ambani likely to tie knot with diamond merchant’s daughter Shloka Mehta:

Many in close business and family circles have already been unofficially “congratulating” them, but they have been waving them off and asking them “to wait for everything to finalise before we give you a party”.

The 26-year-old Akash Ambani is the eldest son of Mukesh and Nita Ambani from among three children. Whereas, Isha Ambani is her twin sister. He is on the board of Reliance Group’s telecom venture Reliance Jio. The same Shloka is the Director of Blue Foundation since July 2014 and aprat from this she is also a co-founder of Connector.

Coincidentally, Akash and Shloka are alumni of the famed Dhirubhai Ambani International School (DAIS), in the Bandra Kurla Complex here.

After schooling at DAIS, Akash studied at Brown University, a private Ivy League institution based in Rhode Island, and among the most prestigious in the US.

On her part, post-schooling at DAIS in 2009, Shloka left for the US to study anthropology at Princeton University and later completed her Masters in Law from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

While Akash is on the board of Reliance Jio, Shloka is a Director with Rosy Blue Foundation and is a co-founder of ConnectFor, an organisation that helps NGOs get volunteers for various causes.

When contacted, sources from both families declined to comment on the upcoming engagement ceremony or the subsequent wedding, the dates or the venue.

Shloka is the youngest of three siblings of Russell Mehta and Mona, who is a close relative of the controversial diamantaire Nirav Modi.