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April 26, 2012

Number 13 gets popular among bidders

SANGRUR: The number 13 is often termed inauspicious but this means a lot to Badan Singh of Dhaipei village in Ludhiana. For his SUV, Badan bought the registration number PB 13AB 0013 for Rs 1.13 lakh at an auction held in Sangrur on Thursday. Going a step ahead, Sanjeev Kumar from Jalalabad paid Rs 1.14 lakh for PB 13AB 1313 for his motorcycle. The number 1313 fetched the second highest bidding after the number 0001. Not only this, Punjab finance minister Parminder Singh Dhindsa is too fond of this number; the number on his official sedan being PB 13 Y 1313.
Inderjit Singh of Boparai Kalan in Ludhiana bid Rs 2.71 lakh for PB 13AB 0001 while the number 0002 was bought for Rs 85,000 by Yadwinder.
Bhagwant Singh got 0005 for Rs 75,000. Chirag Bansal spent Rs 55,000 to get 0007, Sandeep Kumar shelled out Rs 41,000 on the number 0008. Sangrur DTO Mohinderpal Gupta said, "Sale of just 10 numbers made the exchequer richer by Rs 8.33 lakh

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