Kerala auto driver hits jackpot, wins Rs 12 crore in lottery

By PTI

KOCHI: Sometimes woman luck appears to be hiding inside ‘fancy’ issues. Atleast it so occurred to a Kerala auto driver who will now smile all his technique to the financial institution with the assistance of a ‘fancy’ lottery ticket that fetched him a Rs 12 crore jackpot.

A day after the Onam bumper lottery outcomes had been introduced, the fortunate winner was recognized on Monday as Jayapalan P R, an autodriver from Maradu close to right here.

The end result was introduced on Sunday and the ticket bearing serial quantity TE 645465 emerged because the fortunate winner.

“I bought the ticket on September 10 from Tripunithura. I found this number as a fancy number,” Jayapalan instructed reporters.

The auto driver would take dwelling over Rs 7 crore of the full bounty, after deduction of tax.