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700 kg of Onions Worth Rs 50,000 Stolen in Mumbai

About 700 kg of onions worth Rs. 50,000 was allegedly stolen from a market in suburban Mumbai.

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As onion prices hit the roof, nearly 700 kilograms of the vegetable have been stolen from a market in Mumbai. The stolen onion stock was estimated to be worth Rs 50,000.

14 sacks of onion were stolen from a shop of 55-year-old vegetable vendor Anant Naik at Prateeksha Nagar in Wadala, police said.

Sacks containing about 700 kgs of onions were stolen. Naik had covered his stock of onions at around 9.30 pm on Friday and left for home. When he returned on Saturday morning, 14 sacks were missing.
– Dhananjay Kulkarni, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Detection)

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A case has been registered in this regard under IPC section 379 (theft) at Wadala TT police station, they added.

The wholesale onion prices on Sunday touched Rs 57 per kg at Lasalgaon in Maharashtra – Asia’s biggest onion market. It has raised the possibility of further spike in retail prices in most parts of the country adding to consumers’ woes.

In Delhi and some other parts of the country, retail onion prices have already gone up to Rs 80 per kg.

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