Not gold or silver, it's tomatoes thieves want! Hassan family in tears

NT Correspondet

Hassan: The skyrocketing prices of tomato have made the culinary staple so valuable that it has lured thieves into stealing them.

In one such incident, thieves made away with tomatoes worth Rs 2.7 lakh right from a farm in Belur in this district.

This is not the only theft of tomatoes that has been reported. In a theft of a smaller scale, 20 kg of tomatoes was also allegedly stolen from a shop in Mahabubabad district in Telangana. Tomatoes are presently sold at Rs 150 a kg in Bengaluru.

According to the tomato farmer in Belur, who was in tears, the thieves decamped with the tomatoes onTuesday.

Parvathamma said her family had been guarding their tomato farm cautiously.