The fancy number — CH01-AS-0001’ went for a whopping Rs8 lakh at an auction of new vehicle registration series ‘CH-01-AS’ held by the UT Registering and licensing Authority (RlA) on Monday.
Sukhwinder Turka, managing director of KT land Developers Pvt limited, bought the number 'CH01-AS-0001' for Rs8 lakh for his fancy land Rover worth Rs 1 crore.
The fancy number 'CH01-AS-0009' fetched the second highest bid. 'CH01-AS-0009' was bought by Radha Raman Automobiles for Rs4.25 lakh. ‘CH 01-AS-0100’ went for Rs3.55 lakh, the third highest bid during the auction.
The RlA earned a whopping Rs55 lakh (approximately) by auctioning 94 numbers on Monday. In all, there were 98 numbers which were kept for auction.
Out of the total 98 numbers, 94 vanity numbers were auctioned and remaining four could not be auctioned as the bidders did not turn up.
An official of RlA said "in this auctioned series, 0002 went for Rs1.01 lakh, 0003 went for Rs1.2 lakh, 0004 went for Rs1.82 lakh, 0005 went for Rs1.65 lakh, 0006 went for Rs1.51, 0007 went for Rs1.36 lakh and 0008 went for Rs85,000."
The numbers 0001, 0009, 0007, 9999 and 7777 in the new series attracted the maximum number of bidders. There were multiple bidders for 98 numbers out of a total of 482 applicants. During the previous auction of "CH01-AR" series last month, the number '001' went for Rs1,005,000.