Illegal cloth washing by tie-and-dye units resumes

Jodhpur: The illegal trade of washing cloth by the tie-and-dye units has started rearing its ugly head with the lockdown being lifted.
In a first such action post-lockdown, the Special Task Force (STF) seized an illegal washing unit in Belwa of Balesar subdivision in Jodhpur district and filed a case against the owner of the unit on Wednesday. Incharge of the STF, Sunil K Panwar said the team raided the unit following information about an illegal unit functioning in an agriculture field in Belwa under Balesar police station.“When the team raided the spot, the agriculture field of Hameer Singh, work of washing and drying was found in progress,” Panwar said.
On the spot, Singh had built six water tanks for washing the fabric. Water was being taken from a tubewell just beside the tanks and the coloured water, which was contaminated, was being released in the field.
The STF seized a total of 70 big bales of cloth from the spot, which had been brought for washing.