The wholesale onion prices on August 22 touched Rs 57 per kg at Lasalgaon in Maharashtra which is considered Asia's biggest onion market. In Delhi and some other parts of the country, retail onion prices have gone up to Rs 80 per kg. So, onion in India now seems to be a target of the robbers. It is learnt that robbers targeted an onion shop in suburban Mumbai and fled with 700kg of the kitchen staple worth about Rs 50,000 on Friday night. Altogether fourteen sacks of onion were stolen from the shop of vegetable vendor.