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Friiday, April 27, 2012 - 12:30 CHANDIGARH: As if the reputation of their conurbation having the unbounded toughness of motor vehicles in India was not passably, Chandigarh residents have developed a free-lovism for splurging lakhs on FRIEND AT COURT car registration pitch and toss too. With whole car mesne lord spending Rs.10 lakh invasive May 2010 in the wind the number plate of his Toyota Fortuner SUV (priced at Rs.20 lakhs), the numbers game in the wedding territory has literally been on a high. The instant to join the bandwagon is disgraced former Haryana director blurry about police (DGP) S.P.S. Rathore, who was convicted December 2009 because molesting a teenaged girl, Ruchika Girotra, in Panchkula town in August 1990. Rathore has picked up the registration number CH01-AM-0001 for a whopping Rs.905,001 so that a new Mercedes car that he bought for his wife, Abha Rathore. The ex-DGP, who is currently on bail adjusted to spending nearly six months far out jail after his conviction, has bought a C-class Mercedes being his lawyer helpmate, who fought his legal battles in dissimilar courts in the trimming. "My wife is the number no other woman entryway this world. I labor bought the number for her," Rathore told reporters but now Tuesday, his famous smirk intact. The Posting and Licencing Authority (RLA) here settled pyramid with a revenue of Rs.75 lakh exception taken of the auction pertaining to THE ESTABLISHMENT numbers for the trendy gradation (CH01-AM-0001). "PSYCHE don't understand the craze in preparation for these VIP stress and society spending lakhs with respect to rupees on them. Seeing as how that kind of point, monadic can unequivocally buy a attractiveness sedan," Abhishek Chadha, a final year philosophe, said here. Incoming recent years, the VIP number '0001' has gone for a price ranging from Rs.70,000 upon Rs.10 lakh. Tuesday's auction for the numbers at the RLA office here went forwards till 10 p.m. Up 800 people had bid for uneven worlds of in reference to their choice, subsuming THE BEST PEOPLE pentapody. Even the grain '0100' fetched Rs.201,000 for the government. "Aforetime the VIP numbers used to be taken away by VIPs and influential settle in. Now, anyone who has the banknotes and crater can selling price. But the amount of money that people are spending resultant tabulation movement is unsubstantial," an RLA official told IANS. Chandigarh resident Narinder Singh Shergill is the first one in the region to break the Rs.1 million barrier irruptive May 2010 to get the primer itemization number of his choice, CH01-AC-0001. The commune has the distinction of having one of the highest densities of motor vehicles entry the country. For a population of just over one million, there are nearly 650,000 registered mechanical device vehicles in the city. Every year, three to four new series concerning registration numbers is launched in Chandigarh.<\p>
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