Updated On: 02 October, 2019 03:40 PM IST | | PTI
The woman paid Rs 25,000 as tax and a penalty of Rs 40,000 for giving wrong information to the government, in order to get the Rs 35 lakh which she thought she won in lottery

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A Mumbai woman has approached police claiming she was conned of Rs 83,000 by unidentified caller/s who said she had won a Rs 35 lakh lottery, an official said on Monday, September 30, 2019. Ameerunnissa Abdul Kalam Sheikh (25), a Kandivali resident, told police she got calls from numbers that flashed as 'KBC officer' and 'Government of India' on her cellphone, he said.