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Thiruvananthapuram - He used to send money, collected through begging via a bank, to his family and would save some amount of money to buy lottery tickets every month.
In a 'rags to riches' story, Ponnaiyya, a migrant worker who was living in suburb Vellarada, won the jackpot of Rs65 lakh in the state-run Akshaya lottery.
A regular punter of lotteries, he also won a series of consolation prizes to the tune of Rs90,000 in the lots, drawn on Wednesday.
The incident came close on the heels of a 22-year-old migrant worker from West Bengal had won Rs1 crore Kerala government lottery last month.
Hailing from Ananthapur district of Andhra, Ponnaiyya, once a mason, had turned into begging to look after his wife and three children when he lost a leg in an accident.
According to Vellarada police, he used to beg in and around the suburb and sleep at a bus stand at Marthandam, located on the Kerala-Tamil Nadu border.
He used to send money, collected through begging via a bank, to his family and would save some amount of money to take lottery tickets every month.
"It was the local lottery agent who sold him tickets realised that Ponnaiyya had won the first prize. The agent had tracked him and conveyed the happy news and took him to the police station considering his safety," Sub-Inspector D Shibu Kumar said.
The police also took him into the nearest branch of State Bank of India for further procedures, he said.
The official said Ponnaiyya is still at Vellarada and he would go back to the home state with his father and brother soon.
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