Express News Service
KOCHI: A dubious app has been selling Kerala Lottery tickets online, cheating hundreds of customers and violating the provisions of the Kerala Paper Lotteries (Regulation) Rules, 2005. The app — Kerala Lottery Online — uses the picture of former minister Kadakampally Surendran releasing an Onam bumper ticket and offers online purchase of lottery tickets. The scam may run into crores of rupees as many customers have complained that they have purchased tickets in bulk. The app has more than five lakh downloads and as per reports, most of the sales are done outside the state.
According to the Kerala lottery department, the state is selling only paper lottery and online sale of the tickets has been banned. There are more than 1,000 reviews in the app and many customers have complained that the tickets vanish once the results are announced.
“I think there is some cheating going on through this app. I purchased 25 tickets of Summer Bumper BR 84. The display of tickets was there till the date of draw. Just after the time, my tickets vanished and not to be found in the drawn list too. I tried to complain and there was no response,” wrote Johnson Correya on March 31.
“In today’s Nirmal lottery draw NR 272, My ticket number was NA 399970. YouTube live showed that 9970 has won the fourth prize of Rs 5,000. But my lottery ticket is not showing,” wrote Chinmoy Dodak on April 15. Officers at the lottery department said they…
