Jalandhar, 27 Aug
An old man in Adampur town of Jalandhar district of Punjab has won a lottery worth Rs 2.5 crore. 67-year-old Pritam Lal Jaggi bought this lottery ticket for only 500 rupees on the occasion of Rakhi.
Pritam Singh said that he has been doing scrap work and has been buying lottery tickets for the past 50 years. He hoped that one day his fortune would shine.
Pritam says that after seeing the newspaper, he came to know that he has won the lottery. However, he did not believe this. After some time, when he got a call from the lottery selling agency, he was convinced.
Pritam said that he has been buying tickets for the past 50 years. Last week he had bought a lottery ticket from a man named Sevak. He bought this ticket not in his name but in the name of his wife Anita Jaggi alias Babli. whose ticket number was 452749.
When he read the newspaper on Sunday morning, he found out that he had won the lottery. As soon as he heard this news, he jumped with joy, when he told this news to his family, the whole family was also very happy. Pritam says that after receiving the money, he will invest about 25 percent of the entire amount in social works.