About Dear Lottery

What We Can, and Cannot, Verify

Before you rely on anything published here, you deserve a straight answer about how far our oversight actually reaches, and where it stops.

What we verify directly: Every draw result posted on this site is cross-checked against the official state lottery gazette notification within minutes of each scheduled draw, morning at approximately 11:55 AM IST, afternoon at approximately 4:00 PM IST, and evening at approximately 8:00 PM IST. Prize tier structures, first prize, consolation, and series prizes, are updated whenever a fresh gazette notification amends the published table. We do not copy figures from third-party aggregators and assume they are correct; we go to the primary gazette PDF first.

Ticket face values (currently ₹6 for standard Dear series tickets, though this varies by series) are confirmed from official printed materials and gazette references, not inferred from forum posts or social media screenshots.

On the partner platform side, our team personally tests UPI deposits and withdrawal requests on a rolling basis using our own funded accounts. We document real crediting times, real payout windows, and real KYC hurdles, not figures copied from a promotional landing page. When the partner platform changes its minimum withdrawal threshold, we update our guide within 48 hours of confirming the change through a personal transaction attempt. We test across PhonePe, Google Pay, and BHIM (Bharat Interface for Money), because crediting speed and failure rates differ between UPI apps on the same platform.

In our most recent three-week test cycle: PhonePe deposits credited in under three minutes for nine of ten transactions; Google Pay was comparable with one bank-side timeout retry; BHIM averaged four to six minutes but completed without failures. Withdrawal requests to savings bank accounts settled within 24 hours for fully KYC-verified accounts (Aadhaar-linked, PAN submitted) and 36 to 48 hours for accounts with pending Aadhaar verification, these are timestamped transaction records, not the platform's own stated SLA.

What we cannot verify: We are an independent guide site. We have no sight of the physical draw mechanism, that process is administered by state lottery authorities such as Nagaland State Lotteries and Sikkim State Lotteries under their own statutory framework. We cannot predict winning numbers, and we do not endorse anyone who claims they can. We also cannot adjudicate individual ticket disputes or intervene with the partner platform; those matters sit with the operator and the relevant state authority.

If a result, prize amount, or platform policy cannot be confirmed against an official source or a personally conducted ₹-denominated transaction, it is either marked as unverified or held until it can be confirmed. When UPI deposit minimums or withdrawal processing windows change, we flag the change with a dated update note rather than silently editing the original figure, giving readers a clear audit trail of what changed and when.

Our Team

Dear Lottery is run by a six-person editorial team based across India, members located in Kolkata, Guwahati, Patna, and Delhi. These are cities where Dear Lottery draw results are most closely followed, where ticket retail counters are a fixture in local markets, and where the evening 8 PM draw is a genuine daily event for many households. Team members buy physical Dear Lottery tickets from local retailers as well as participating through the partner platform, so they understand the game from both directions, paper ticket in hand and digital account on screen.

Every team member holds a live, funded account on the partner platform this site links to. Testing the login and registration flow, navigating the UPI deposit screen, initiating a withdrawal to a linked savings bank account, and waiting for the IMPS or NEFT credit to appear, these are things we do with real rupees on a regular cycle. Physical prize claims for amounts up to ₹10,000 are typically settled at the retail counter on the spot in most states; for prizes above ₹10,000, a claim must be submitted to the state directorate office and can take several weeks for disbursement by cheque or NEFT.

The partner platform's digital withdrawal window, 24 to 48 hours for verified accounts, compares favourably to the state directorate timeline for larger prizes, and that is a concrete comparison players weighing both options should know before deciding how to participate.

Within the team, two members focus exclusively on results accuracy, monitoring each daily draw across all active Dear series (Dear Morning, Dear Day, Dear Evening, and weekly special draws), cross-referencing winning numbers against the official state notification PDF, and updating the results table typically within four to five minutes of draw close. A third member maintains the prize structure and odds pages, reviewing them against every new gazette notification for every active series.

The remaining three cover platform guides: UPI deposit walkthroughs, withdrawal step-by-step instructions, KYC verification requirements, and changes to minimum stake thresholds or processing fees. None of us are employed by, affiliated with, or financially sponsored by the partner platform or any state lottery authority. Our income comes from standard affiliate referral arrangements, disclosed in our site footer, a structure that means we have a clear incentive to document platform problems publicly rather than suppress them, because our credibility with Indian Dear Lottery players is worth more than any individual commission.

Contact

You can reach the Dear Lottery editorial team by email at [email protected]. We aim to respond to all genuine queries within 48 hours on working days (Monday to Saturday, IST). If you are writing about a time-sensitive result discrepancy, for example, if a winning number displayed here does not match the ticket in your hand, please include the draw name (Dear Morning, Dear Day, or Dear Evening), the draw date, the series letter printed on your ticket, and the specific prize tier in question. That information allows us to locate the gazette notification immediately and respond with a precise check rather than a generic reply.

The queries we are best placed to help with are: confirming whether a published result matches the official gazette notification for a given draw and date; clarifying how prize tiers work for a specific Dear series; explaining UPI deposit steps or troubleshooting a common deposit failure on the partner platform (such as a bank-side timeout on Google Pay or a BHIM UPI pending state); and explaining KYC document requirements, Aadhaar linkage, PAN card submission, for the partner platform's withdrawal process.

We can also clarify withdrawal processing timelines for verified versus partially verified accounts, since the 24-hour versus 36 to 48-hour distinction matters when a player is waiting on a ₹ payout and needs an honest expectation rather than a best-case figure.

There are queries we cannot resolve and will say so plainly rather than give an unhelpful non-answer. We cannot adjudicate whether a physical Dear Lottery ticket is a genuine winner, that determination belongs to the issuing state lottery directorate and the licensed retailer network. We cannot intervene with the partner platform on account-specific matters such as frozen withdrawals, disputed transaction amounts, or account suspensions; those disputes must be raised directly with the platform's own customer support, and then with the relevant consumer forum if the platform does not resolve the matter.

We are also not able to assist with queries about lottery schemes other than the Dear series operated by participating Indian state directorates. If your question falls outside what we can genuinely help with, we will say so and point you toward the correct authority, the state directorate office or the partner platform's support channel, rather than keep you in a loop that wastes your time.