NEW DELHI: Fuel retailers spared consumers of further increase in prices by keeping retail rates of petrol and diesel unchanged on Monday.
The price pause came after the rates were raised on Sunday, the tenth increase so far in the month of June.
With fuel prices remaining unchanged on Monday, petrol continues to cost Rs 97.22 per litre and diesel Rs 87.97 per litre in Delhi.
Across the country as well the petrol and diesel rates remained static on Monday but the actual retail prices varied depending on the level of local levies in respective states.
In the city of Mumbai, where petrol price crossed Rs 100-mark for the first time ever on May 29, the fuel price reached a new high of Rs 103.36 per litre on Sunday.