India, March 11 -- Amid escalating global tensions and rising petroleum prices, panic buying of fuel and LPG cylinders has gripped several parts of the country, prompting the All-India LPG Federation to appeal for public restraint to prevent a supply crisis.

"The ongoing conflict is fundamentally economic rather than territorial. Many countries have been impacted, and it has affected the global economy," All-India LPG Federation President Jagmohan Singh Raina said.

Raina attributed the current shortage to international developments, particularly the escalating hostilities with Iran, which he said had set the "whole area on fire" and directly impacted petroleum product supplies to India.

Raina said people were queuing up at petrol pumps...