Definition of "lakh"

But they were both killed in the same engagement against Tippoo Sahib, her father owing ten lakhs of rupees and her husband nearly half that sum.

1972, Patrick O'Brian, Post Captain - West Indies

After a hunt lasting more than a year-and-a-half, police have arrested a couple for duping around 2 lakh people in one of India's biggest investment frauds involving an estimated Rs 1,100 crore.

2012 November 13, Neeraj Chauhan, Dwaipayan Ghosh, “Couple from Maharashtra held for Rs 1,100 crore stock scam”, in Times of India‎

According to data published in WHO’s Weekly Epidemiological Record, India’s annualised non-polio AFP rate for 2011 stood at 15.06 per one lakh children below 15 years of age, compared to a global rate that year of 5.48.

2013 January 3, N. Gopal Raj, “Polio free does not mean paralysis free”, in The Hindu‎