Dubai Duty Free: Indian boy, 7, in Ajman wins $1 million
Last updated on: 18 March,2020 09:21 am
Grade 1 student in the UAE will give the money to his father who plans to build a house
DUBAI (Gulf News) - A 7-year-old Indian boy living in Ajman is the new Dubai Duty Free million dollar winner.
Kapilraj Kanakaraj, a Grade 1 student, walked away with $1 million on Tuesday, March 17. The boy hails from the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.
His father, Kanakaraj, is a businessman in Ajman who supplies furniture to schools in UAE. Speaking to Gulf News, the father could not contain his excitement when he spoke to Gulf News.
“This is the first time I have ever bought a raffle ticket in my life and I cannot believe my luck that I have won,” he said in a telephone interview to Gulf News.
Kanakaraj said he was travelling to Chennai on a business trip when he bought his winning ticket number 4234 from the series 327.
"I was reluctant to travel at first. But I was forced to travel. In the last minute I decided to buy the ticket. I feel lucky," Kanakaraj said in a telephone interview.
A resident of UAE for the past 27 years, Kanakaraj said the winning money will go into developing a building in Ajman for which he has already procured a land.
“I have already bought a 6.5 million square feet of land space and I plan to build an office building with the winning money on this.”