New Delhi, March 13 -- Imagine someone getting physical shares of a bluechip company such as Reliance Industries which your parents may have bought nearly four decades ago and are now worth a fortune.

This is exactly what happened to Chandigarh-based Rattan Dhillon who found in his cupboard a few share certificates. The investment, he shared, was done 37-years ago.

He posted the pictures of physical share certificates which were issued in 1987 and are signed by Dhirubhai Ambani, founder of Reliance Industries and late father of Mukesh D Ambani, who is the current chairman and managing director of RIL.

In his first post on March 11, he wrote that he found the shares at home, and was clueless about the stock market. He urged the netizens...