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onions_prices_murders.jpgFarmer Yellaiah was allegedly stoned to death by miscreants who eyed his treasure – a bagful of 150 kg onions grown by him in a market yard in the neighbouring Ranga Reddy district.
The victim, who belongs to Kadicharla village in Nawabpet mandal of the district in Andhra Pradesh, was targeted allegedly because of his prized possession.

“People told us that the attack was because of onions as the gunny bag is missing from the place. We have received a complaint from his son, Ramulu, about the murder. There is another version that the murder was a consequence of an old land dispute. The case is under investigation and we will know the real motive after that,” said Nawabpet police station inspector, Lingaiah.

The incident brings into focus the issue of the phenomenal rise in the price of onions and the government’s inability to control the price. The wide gap between what a farmer gets for the crop he toils to raise and the price at which a consumer buys it – 50 paisa per kg and Rs.100 – appears to be leading to such a situation. The price of onion is hovering around Rs. 70 in several places in Andhra Pradesh.

Expressing shock at the farmer’s murder, the former Union government secretary E.A.S. Sarma traced the problem to the lack of coordination between the Central and State governments in controlling the prices. The crux of the problem is the chain of middlemen, wholesalers and pseudo farmers who eye a windfall of profit in the entire hoarding game, he said. “I’m not surprised if there is a nexus between local politicians and hoarding businessmen in the entire game. Onion prices went up even before the rainfall this year which is solely because of hoarding dynamics. The government is fully aware of it,” said Mr. Sarma.

Onions leading to murders on UP roads

The driver and cleaner of a truck transporting onions were murdered on a highway in Uttar Pradesh after a gang looted the consignment, friday night.
A 10-member gang has been robbing trucks carrying vegetables from neighbouring Madhya Pradesh.
Jaunpur’s Superintendent of Police Happy Guptan told that three members of the gang were arrested on Thursday evening.

They admitted to looting the truck, which was coming from Tamil Nadu, on the night of Oct 7-8 near Satarhia and killing its driver and cleaner.
The criminals had followed the truck coming from Tamil Nadu in two Indigo cars. They intercepted it and told the driver that they were from the Mandi Samiti and wanted to check the consignment.

The perpetrators then drugged the driver and cleaner and shot them in the head. While the driver’s body was dumped in Sigramau in Jaunpur district, the cleaner was dumped in Sultanpur.

A special task force of the Uttar Pradesh Police nabbed two of the gang members soon after the incident. Three more were arrested Thursday night.

The gang members confessed to carrying out a similar murder of another truck driver in Vardha in Azamgarh two months back, Guptan said. The cleaner of that truck escaped.

That truck was, however, carrying tomatoes, which quickly rotted and had to be dumped instead of being sold.
It was then that the gang decided to hit trucks carrying non-perishable items such as onion, police said.

Police say there have been eight such incidents on the Allahabad-Manganwa road (from Rewa) and Allahabad-Varanasi road in the past two months.

“While we initially though these are routine robberies with the victims killed for fear of being identified later, the interrogation of the first lot revealed bizzare aspects of the crime,” Guptan said.

Officials blamed it all on the steep hike in onion prices.
An alert has been sounded for onion robbers, who are on the run.

Not long ago, an egg vendor was shot dead in Etah district as he had not sprinkled onions in an omelette served to some youth.

 
 

 

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