WITH ELECTIONS WRAPPED UP, CENTRE INCREASES FUEL PRICES

NEW DELHI:

State-run fuel retailers increased the petrol price by 15 paise and diesel by 18 paise per litre on Tuesday for the first time in over two months days after the assembly election process in four states and a Union Territory ended last week.

Petrol in Delhi was being sold at ₹90.55 per litre and diesel at ₹80.91 a litre on Tuesday, according to India’s largest fuel retailer, Indian Oil Corporation (IOC). Public sector oil marketing companies (OMCS) could no longer hold pump rates of petrol and diesel as international prices have soared, two executives said.