Mumbai: The police in Maharashtra’s Jalgaon district busted a mattress factory for utilizing discarded masks as an alternative of cotton as stuffing. As per media experiences, the police recovered piles of masks on the premises. The proprietor of the unit has been booked and a probe has been launched.
“When the officials visited the premises of the factory in Kusumba village of MIDC, they found a mattress being stuffed with used masks,” Additional Superintendent of Police Chandrakant Gawali was quoted as saying by NDTV.
Officials at Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation (MIDC) the police station in Jalgaon had been knowledgeable of the alleged racket being carried out on the Maharashtra Mattress Centre. Â
India is in the course of a second wave of the coronavirus pandemic, with some 1.68 lakh new circumstances of an infection being reported previously 24 hours. While, Maharashtra alone has reported 63,294 of those, with 349 deaths.
The nation at the moment leads the world within the day by day common variety of new infections reported in additional than two weeks, accounting for one in each six infections reported globally every day.
With these numbers India has overtaken Brazil because the second most worst-hit nation subsequent solely ot the US.
