Tomatoes are being offered free with smartphones or a pair of sneakers and thieves are ransacking shops for the kitchen staple, which seems to be the new gold. High prices of tomatoes have resulted in situations from the outright hilarious to the exceptionally bizarre.
Two men in Kanpur stole 25kg of tomatoes, along with a small quantity of green chillies and ginger, to sell in the market for quick money. They have been arrested by the police.