{
  "id": 5352574,
  "title": "The Traitors Season 2 Winners: Krystle D'Souza & Rida Tharana Win ₹66 Lakh, Beat Shalini Passi & Sahil Salathia",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/03/the-traitors-season-2-winners-krystle-dsouza-rida-tharana-win-66-lakh",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-09-03T14:33:37.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Free Press Journal",
    "slug": "free-press-journal",
    "url": "https://www.freepressjournal.in/entertainment/the-traitors-season-2-winners-krystle-dsouza-rida-tharana-win-66-lakh-beat-shalini-passi-sahil-salathia"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Krystle D Souza and Rida Tharana emerged victorious in The Traitors Season 2, sharing a prize pool of Rs 66 lakh. Their triumph came after a strategic betrayal during the Circle of Shaq finale task. In the final Trust or Shaq round, Krystle and Rida chose Trust while Shalini opted for Shaq, revealing them both as the joint winners. The contestants also won an additional Rs 17.6 lakh during the task, where they had to find gold bars hidden in camel clothes and diffuse a detonator.",
  "summary": "Krystle D'Souza and Rida Tharana have been announced as the winners of The Traitors Season 2 . The duo shared the whopping prize money of Rs 66 lakh after pulling off a major twist in the finale. During the final round of Circle of Shaq, Krystle chose to betray Shalini Passi and save Rida. With only Krystle and Rida left in the game, the two chose to trust each other. However, when they were…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}