Meet The 13 Lucky Indians Who Hit The Jackpot And Became Millionaires Overnight

A 62-year-old Kerala resident who had a miraculous escape after the fight he was travelling in, Emirates EK521, caught fire in 2016. The next day after cheating death A.K. Mohammad Basheer became a millionaire by winning a lottery. This after his lottery at the Dubai Duty-Free won the first prize of $1 million.

Azad Singh from Fatehabad district, Punjab who purchased lottery tickets for the first time won a cash prize of Rs 1.5 crore in February 2017.?

Harikrishnan who worked as a business development manager in a firm in Dubai won a lottery worth $3.2 million (Rs 20.8 crores) in January 2018, which was also the biggest-ever raffle prize money. He participated in the Big Ticket Lottery at Abu Dhabi International Airport.

Manoj Kumar of Mandvi village in Sangrur district, Punjab borrowed Rs 200 to buy the ticket in 2018. Later, when the Punjab State lotteries made the winner's announcement for the Rakhi Bumper, Manoj Kumar was shell-shocked. He had won a whopping Rs 1.5 crore.

Indian-origin Krishna Barri, who came to the US to study with the help of his brother-in-law 20 years ago and now lives in Florida, is not the kind of person who buys lottery tickets often. But the one time he decided to, he hit the jackpot - $14.5 million to be precise. He bought ten tickets on December 1, 2018, at the Zephyrhills Publix Liquor Store in Tampa, Florida and one of them clicked for him.?

A 35-year-old Punjab police constable Ashok Kumar struck gold with a lottery ticket he was sold by a vendor who visited the police station. And his stars seemed to have been shining bright. Kumar won a whopping Rs 2 crore and was declared the winner of the Punjab State Lohri Bumper Lottery on Sunday, January 20, 2020.

Following a severe drought in Telangana, a farmer Vilas Rikkala went to Dubai in 2014 in the hope of finding some work to better his prospects. His prospects indeed got better. But instead of a big professional break, he ended up winning a whopping Rs 28.5 crore in the UAE's Big Ticket Draw in 2019.

A little boy became a millionaire when he was one year old in 2020. Ramees Rahman, father of a 1-year-old Indian baby boy from Kerala purchased a ticket in his name and won a whopping $1 million in a monthly raffle draw in UAE.

A Malayali couple based in Nottingham in the United Kingdom woke up to a brand new luxury car worth Rs 1.84 crore (?195,000). It happened after Shibu randomly filled a lottery contest called ‘Best of the Best’ (BOTB) for a dream car. He had already filled three of them and did the last one randomly at an airport. The best part is that he completely forgot about it. “I had participated three times and I didn’t want to become an addict. Last time, I filled the form and forgot about it completely. My wife was taking a nap after her night shift, and when the doorbell rang, we were greeted with a brand new Lamborghini worth ?195,000 and prize money of ?20,000. We are so grateful to god, as we were worried about my job prospects,” Shibu told The New Indian Express.

Sunil who works as a salesperson for a private company in Bahrain won a whopping $1 million in the Dubai Duty-Free Millennium Millionaire draw in 2020. He was also the 170th Indian to win $1 million at the DDF Millennium Millionaire draw.