In a letter addressed to the Lasalgaon Agriculture Produce Marketing Committee, the merchants' association have stated that all the traders will resume work from tomorrow. They had boycotted the auctions on the pretext that the weather was ``hostile'', claiming that last week's intermittent drizzle had damaged onions at their godowns.

The markets remained shut on Saturday and Sunday for the weekend break. With the boycott continuing, no transactions took place today as well.

I-T sleuths had raided four major traders on November 17 - Pukhraj Jain (Lasalgaon), Ratan Raka (Lasalgaon and Manmad), Shantilal Bafna (Pimpalgaon) and Shivcharan Lalwani (Manmad). While examining their account books, the officials foundcross-entries involving smaller traders as well. When the latter were summoned for interrogation and verification of the entries, panic spread culminating in the boycott.

Before suspension of trading on Friday, the price of onions averaged Rs 1,300 per quintal. The I-T officials, meanwhile, have completed their raids with investigations in 11 cases underway. The sleuths have discovered cash amounting to Rs 18 lakh, jewellery worth Rs 24 lakh, shares worth Rs 15 lakh and fixed deposits worth Rs 2 crore. Prima facie, assets worth Rs 16 lakh were unaccounted, while the sources of income for the fixed deposits are under investigation, sources say.