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| India-born lottery winner's death |
| India-born lottery winner's death by poison in US
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 9-January-2013
2:27:53 AM |
| 46-year-old Urooj Khan had a successful dry-cleaning business in Chicago but in June, he could not resist trying his luck with the lottery.
He bought two tickets from a 7 Eleven store he passed regularly on his way home. They cost him $60. One of them turned out to be the million-dollar jackpot.
After taxes, the winnings for Mr Khan, who immigrated to the US in 1989, amounted to about $425,000 (Rs. 2.30 crore approximately). The check was issued about a month later, on July 19.
The next day, Mr Khan was dead. He was rushed to hospital after he woke up screaming in the middle of the night; doctors declared him dead on arrival. They said he had died of natural causes.
However, an anonymous call to the police provoked a deeper investigation which revealed that Mr Khan was poisoned with a lethal amount of cyanide.
"I don't think anyone would have a bad eye for him or that he had any enemy," said his wife, Shabana Ansari, adding that she continues to work at the dry cleaner out of a desire to honour her husband and the businesses he built. She said he planned to use the lottery winnings to pay off mortgages, expand his business and give a donation to the St Jude Children's Research Hospital. Ms Ansari said her husband did not have a will and the money is now tied up in probate.
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