Thrissur: Someone got real lucky but he does not know it. Kerala government’s Onam bumper lottery draw results are out and the winner of the Rs 8 crore jackpot is nowhere to be seen.
The lottery vendor who sold the lucky ticket bearing number TC 788368 near the Sastha Temple at Kuthiran on the national highway between Thrissur and Palakkad has just a vague recollection of the buyer who would be a multi-millionaire. Santosh says one of the pilgrims who came to the temple had bought the ticket from him. The lucky man could be a traveler from neighboring districts or even neighboring states.
Santosh bought the ticket from an agency run by K D Johnson at the Sakthan Thamburan bus stand on September 12. This is the first time that a ticket sold by Santosh fetches such a bumper prize.
The tickets in the series starting with ‘7’ were distributed to agencies by the Thrissur lottery office after Onam. Johnson has sold as many as 14,000 tickets for the Onam draw – 50 of them through Santosh from Chuvannamannu.
The ticket sold to the mysterious traveler was one among the many that brought luck to Thrissur district. Tickets sold in the districts also fetched three of the second prizes worth Rs 50 lakh each and four of the third prizes worth Rs 10 lakh each. Four of the fourth prizes worth Rs 1 lakh were also distributed by the district lottery office.
The district lottery office sold a record number of tickets this Onam. As many as 7.96 lakh tickets were sold in Thrissur, fetching the state treasury a whopping Rs 16 crore. After distributing all the prizes, the government is expected to have made a neat profit of Rs 8 crore, equal to the jackpot that still lies unclaimed by the traveler who bought the ticket from Santosh.
Santosh had limited the area of his business to the premises of the Sastha temple after his legs were weakened by an affliction. He is the breadwinner for a family of four.
He is married to Hemalatha, with two sons. Nanda Harsh is a plus-one student at the Government Higher Secondary School at Pattikkadu and Yadu Krishnan is a ninth-standard student at the Higher Secondary School at Thoppu.
Johnson himself was a lottery ticket vendor before he set up an agency in Thrissur. The disabled man finds it difficult to move around after he was injured in a fall.
Meanwhile, another vendor at Guruvayur got even more luckier. Ramalingam was in for a surprise when the draw results came out. The vendor who sold 60 tickets from the Onam series kept one that turned out to be the most valuable. The ticket fetched him a prize of Rs 50 lakh.
Ramalingam, a native of Sivakkam in Tamil Nadu’s Cuddalore district, has been selling lottery tickets at Guruvayur for about 30 years. He had earlier received Rs 1 lakh for a ticket he possessed. He lives at Ariyannur.
Here's the complete result:
1st Prize- Rs 8,00,00,000/- (8 Crore) (1 Number, 1 Prize, common to all series) – TC-788368. Consolation Prize- Rs. 5,00,000/- (5 Lakh) (7 Numbers, 7 Prizes)
2nd Prize- Rs 50,00,000/- (50 Lakh) (8 Numbers, 8 Prizes, one in each series): TA641410, TB995120, TC102960, TD653553, TE805900, TG739830, TH160835, TJ340173
3rd Prize- Rs 10,00,000/- (10 Lakh) (16 Numbers, 16 Prizes, two in each series): TA301614, TB114230, TC549222, TD233561, TE457010, TG619623, TH658089, TJ776299, TA631316, TB693585, TC545621, TD901724, TE545251, TG377585, TH540273, TJ503241
4th Prize- Rs 5,00,000/- (5 Lakh) (16 Numbers, 16 Prizes, two in each series): 351838, 240528, 641620, 644438, 164092, 285542, 906657, 437291, 742371, 265614, 526350, 457873
5th Prize- Rs 1,00,000/- (1 Lakh) (1 numbers, up to 72 prizes): 71246
6th Prize- Rs 10,000/- (5 numbers, up to 3600 prizes): 1319, 8896, 3132, 9282, 6415
7th Prize- Rs 5,000/- (20 numbers, up to 14400 prizes): 4348, 9996, 9655, 5913, 5878, 5061 ,4309, 2084 ,9621, 5620, 1259, 6287,1490, 2439, 0889, 2572, 7121, 9268, 5542, 5566
8th Prize- Rs 2,000/- (35 numbers, up to 25200 prizes): 1003, 8722, 8041, 4502, 7540, 4762, 4799, 3945, 8639, 5417, 4685, 9990, 0786, 7626, 8214, 2851, 3125, 6209, 1540, 6538, 1369, 8687, 7861, 3775, 3413, 6557, 6956, 8609, 1565, 6334, 1315, 4013, 6071, 6776, 7153
9th Prize- Rs 1000/- (40 numbers, up to 28800 prizes): 7048, 7265, 2335, 6869, 5162, 7340, 4720, 9574, 1085, 0403, 5851, 5706, 0523, 4942, 4902, 8281, 6810, 2164, 8157, 4620, 9348, 4561, 3871, 8625, 4333, 1448, 9740, 0517, 8198, 3549, 5236, 3486