JJP activist buys ‘0001’ for Rs 8 lakh

RLA nets Rs71.32 lakh from e-auction of vanity numbers

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Updated At : 12:30 PM Nov 10, 2020 IST

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Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, November 9

An educationist and activist of the Jannayak Janata Party (JJP) has spent a whopping Rs8 lakh on a special number for his new SUV, a Fortuner.

Dr Satish Pogaat, Director, Pogaat Public Senior Secondary School at Faridabad, made the highest bid of Rs7.50 lakh for the number, ‘0001’, against the reserve price of Rs50,000 at an e-auction for vanity registration numbers of a new series, CH01CC, conducted by the Registering and Licensing Authority (RLA) here today.

A resident of Burail, Dr Pogaat, who joined the JJP in Delhi last Friday, said he bought the VIP number for his new SUV.

Virat, Secretary, RLA, said the authority earned a revenue of Rs71.32 lakh from the e-auction in which 266 bidders participated.

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