Man Dies Before he could take Rs 1 Crore of Lottery

23 April 2013
Trivandrum

A 25-year-old labourer who won Rs. one crore lottery prize drowned in an irrigation pool before he could get the money .Unni, who was a painter, was seen as a ‘lucky’ man when he won the prize in last month’s draw of the Karunya Lottery of the Kerala government.

According to reports, he slipped into an irrigation pool and died before he could receive the prize money from the lottery department.A bachelor, Unni had dreamt of buying a farm plot out of the lottery prize and build a house for his parents and siblings to live, they said. He had deposited the lottery ticket with a local co-operative bank.

According to a lottery department official, the prize would be given to legal heirs on their producing proper documents to prove the relationship.

Source – http://www.ndtv.com/article/south/kerala-man-wins-rs-one-crore-in-lottery-but-dies-before-getting-money-357786

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