June retail inflation eases to 7.31 pct

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's annual consumer price inflation eased to 7.31 percent in June, the lowest level since the government started releasing the data in 2012, helped mainly by a moderation in food prices, government data showed on Monday.

A Reuters poll had forecast the consumer price inflation rate would moderate to 7.95 percent in June from 8.28 percent in the previous month.

(Reporting by Rajesh Kumar Singh; Editing by Frank Jack Daniel)