Kerala man wins Rs 70 lakh lottery, hours after notice for loan default

A man buys lottery tickets from a roadside seller, in Kochi. File pic

Barely hours after he received an attachment notice from a bank in respect of his house for default on loan repayment, a fish seller from Kerala won the Rs 70 lakh Akshaya lottery of the state government. Pookunju, on October 12, began his day as usual and while on the way to collect the fish which he sells during the day, he bought a lottery ticket.

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When he returned home, he learnt that the bank had sent a notice of attachment for his house as he had been unable to pay back a loan of around Rs 9 lakh, he told a television channel. "We did not know what to do. Whether to sell our property. We have a boy and girl who are studying," his wife told the channel.

"Besides the bank loan, my father had raked up a debt of around R5 lakh buying lottery tickets," Pookunju said. But fate smiled upon the family. Within hours of receiving the notice, he won the first prize of Rs 70 lakh.

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