Registration number (0001)of “CH01BZ” series fetched a whopping bidding price of Rs 15,35,000 against a reserve price of only Rs 50,000 in an e-auction of fancy numbers held by Registering and Licensing Authority, Chandigarh.
A businessman namely Kulwinder Singh Bassi made the highest bid of Rs 15,35,000 (Rs 15.35 lakh) for the “CH01BZ0001” in the e-auction.
The number “CH01BZ0003” received the bidding price of Rs 777000 (Rs 7.77 lakh) against the reserve price of only Rs 30000 followed by “CH01BZ0007” which was e-auctioned for Rs 5,86000 (Rs 5.86 lakh) against the reserve price of Rs 30000.
The fancy numbers including “0009” and “0005” in “CH01BZ” series received bidding price of Rs 451000 (Rs 4.51 lakh) and Rs 201000 (Rs 2.01 lakh) respectively against the reserve amount of Rs 30000.
Among other fancy numbers, “9999” was auctioned at Rs 1.60 lakh against the reserve price f Rs 20000, “0010” fetched Rs 1.57 lakh against the reserve price of Rs 30000, “0006” received bidding amount of Rs 1.47 lakh against the bidding price of Rs 30000, “7777” went for Rs 1.41 lakh against the bidding price of Rs 20000 and “0011” fetched bidding price of Rs 1.40 lakh against the reserve price of Rs 30000.
Only those who have purchased vehicles at a Chandigarh address were allowed to participate in the e-auction after submitting the sale letter, i.e. Form No. 21, UID i.e. Aadhaar card and Chandigarh address proof.
Under the e-auction process, the vehicle owners have to deposit a registration fee for participating in the e-auction and the reserve amount for the special/choice registration numbers at the office of the Registering and Licensing Authority in Sector-17 here through demand draft .
Notably, a city resident namely Amarjit Singh had in the year 2012 broken all previous records by winning the bid for a registration number for his luxury car for a whopping Rs 26.05 lakh. Interestingly, the reserve price for “0001” number for the CH-01-AP series was only Rs 25,000.
In the same year, another resident namely Jagjit Singh Chahal, a city based businessman had made the bid of Rs 17 lakh to purchase “CH-01-AN-0001” number.