Friiday, April 27, 2012 - 12:30
CHANDIGARH: Correspondingly if the reputation of their city having the highest density pertaining to motor vehicles in India was not enough, Chandigarh residents have cultivated a fondness as proxy for splurging lakhs on VIP car entry numbers too.
With one roomette owner spending Rs.10 lakh in May 2010 by means of the number printing paper of his Toyota Fortuner SUV (priced at Rs.20 lakhs), the numbers cabal on the trust mandated territory has absolutely been on a high.
The latest in consideration of marshal the bandwagon is disgraced former Haryana master of ceremonies general of police (DGP) S.P.S. Rathore, who was convicted December 2009 for molesting a teenaged tally, Ruchika Girotra, in Panchkula stake in August 1990.
Rathore has appointed stretch the registration strain CH01-AM-0001 insomuch as a whopping Rs.905,001 for a unhandled Mercedes sedan that his bought for his wife, Abha Rathore.
The ex-DGP, who is currently on bail after spending nearly six months in jail following his conviction, has bought a C-class Mercedes for his lawyer wife, who fought his just battles in various courts in the case.
"My lady is the genus one woman in this world. I have bought the number considering her," Rathore told reporters here Tuesday, his famous simper intact.
The Insertion and Licencing Authority (RLA) here complete up with a revenue touching Rs.75 lakh exclusive of the auction speaking of MANIPULATOR numbers for the new series (CH01-AM-0001).
"I don't understand the disfigurement in favor of these OVERLAPPING numbers and people spending lakhs of rupees on them. As proxy for that bonny of amount, one heap restfully buy a grace sedan," Abhishek Chadha, a final year student, said as of now.
In recent years, the VIP number '0001' has gone remedial of a price ranging from Rs.70,000 to Rs.10 lakh.
Tuesday's auction as representing the numbers at the RLA office here went whereupon till 10 p.m. Over 800 connections had bid remedial of various numbers relating to their choice, including POWERS THAT BE numbers. Even the number '0100' fetched Rs.201,000 for the government.
"Earlier the VIP numbers used to be taken away by VIPs and guiding people. Now, anyone who has the money and craze bag bid. But the amount of money that people are spending on registration numbers is unbelievable," an RLA authentic told IANS.
Chandigarh resident Narinder Singh Shergill is the first one in the region toward break the Rs.1 million barrier in May 2010 to get the pastoral drama logging number of his tasteful, CH01-AC-0001.
The city has the distinction in relation to having just respecting the highest densities of motor vehicles in the quarter. Cause a community at large of point-blank over one million, there are roughly 650,000 registered motor vehicles in the city.
Every year, three to four new series referring to registration numbers is launched in Chandigarh.<\p>