A B.C. man who won a $2-million lottery jackpot while also part of a workplace lotto pool has been told he doesn’t have to split his winnings with his coworkers.

In a Jan. 10 ruling by the B.C. Supreme Court, Justice Y. Liliane Bantourakis ruled that the winning ticket was the sole property of Mandeep Singh Maan, and that the winnings are all his too.

The case involved Mann and four coworkers — Balvinder Kaur Nagra, Sukhjinder Singh Sidhu, Binipal Singh Sanghera and Jeevan Pedan — who all worked for the same freight company, and who agreed to pool money to buy lottery tickets in 2021 and 2022.