Overview
- Transport authorities ordered a re-auction after the winning bidder did not complete payment by the stipulated 12 pm deadline.
- Sudhir Kumar of Romulus Solutions said two payment attempts failed due to a technical glitch and that his family opposed the purchase.
- The number will be relisted through Haryana’s fully online weekly fancy-number auction on fancy.parivahan.gov.in.
- The bid began at a base price of ₹50,000, drew 45 applications, and climbed to ₹1.17 crore over two days of competitive bidding.
- The sequence is prized because the uppercase “B” resembles an 8, making HR 88 B 8888 appear as a string of eights, and reports called it India’s costliest plate.