New Delhi, Feb. 22 -- An Arizona convenience store employee is at the center of a legal battle over a $12.8 million lottery jackpot after allegedly purchasing a winning ticket that had been left behind by a customer.

According to a complaint filed Tuesday in Maricopa County Superior Court and cited by 12News, Robert Gawlitza, a manager at a Circle K store in Scottsdale, was working on Nov. 24 when a customer asked to replay numbers for "The Pick" drawing that evening.

The complaint alleges that a store employee printed $85 worth of $1 tickets, but the customer paid for only $60, leaving 25 tickets - worth $25 - on the counter. The tickets remained at the store overnight and into the next morning, untouched.

After learning that his stor...