Thieves steal five sacks of ‘precious’ onion in Gujarat

Surat: At a time when prices of onion has sky-rocketed, an incident of theft of five sacks of onions (over 250 kg) has come to fore in Surat of Gujarat.

Police said that the incident has taken place in Palanpur Patiya area. A case against unknown thieves have been registered. A local vegetable wholesaler said that unknown thieves came late last night and decamped with five sacks of onion each one those containing around 50 top 55 kg of the ‘precious’ commodity.

Notably, price of onion which was in the rage of Rs 20 to 40 a kg a few months back has reached Rs 100 per kg due to non-seasonal rain in its main producing regions.

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