Srinagar: Burglars, on the intervening Sunday-Monday night, stole over 250 apple boxes from the orchards of Wachpora Murran area of south Kashmir’s Pulwama district.

Reports said that the boxes had been stored in a shed owned by a local grower Irshad Ahmad Shah son of Sayed Saif ud Din Shah. The estimated market value of the stolen apple stock is said to be around three lacs.

Confirming the incident a police official said that a team is on spot even as a case has been taken up in this regard. gns