700 fuel outlets in Punjab run dry
As more than 20 per cent of the retail outlets of various state-run oil marketing companies in Punjab ran dry today, panic-struck people began hoarding petrol and diesel, wherever available. The situation was worse in rural belts of Amritsar and Jalandhar and in the districts of Bathinda, Barnala and Sangrur, where people began storing diesel in drums. Fearing that the diesel supply would be restricted, paddy cultivators, who require diesel in this season to run the tubewells, were reportedly hoarding huge quantities of diesel.