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SURAT: In an unusual incident of theft, nearly 250kg of onion stocked in a vegetable vendor’s shop in Palanpur Patiya area of Surat city were stolen by thieves during early hours of Thursday.

Sanju Prajapati runs a shop at Patel park in Palanpur Patiya area. The vendor sells potatoes, onions and garlic . He generally keeps 200kg of stock of all the three on a daily basis. On Wednesday evening too, he bought five bags of onions each containing nearly 50kg and kept in his shop for sales the next day. He closed the shop and went home by night.

On early Thursday morning, when he came back he found the onion sacks missing. Prajapati said, “I had covered these sacks with paper and other stuff so that it is not easily detected but someone took away the onions.”

Prajapati had bought this stock at Rs 70 per kg and was selling it at Rs 90 to 100 per kg. According to him, per sack there is a wastage of 2kg and he has to pay for labour so the retail rates were hiked by 30 per cent.

Prajapati has decided to file a police complaint and hopes to get a clue of who stole his stock by getting footage of CCTV camera of the area.

