New Delhi, July 27 (TIWN) Consumers have been spared of any further hike in fuel prices with oil marketing companies deciding to keep the pump prices of both petrol and diesel unchanged on Monday.

For the last two days diesel prices had maintained an upswing rise by 15 paise per litre, each on Saturday and Sunday.

Petrol prices, however, were unchanged for the 27th consecutive day across the four metros. It is priced at Rs 80.43 a litre in the national capital.

In Delhi, diesel continues to be priced at Rs 81.94 a litre. Still it is now Rs 1.51 costlier than petrol in the city.