Bomb hoax at Infosys
By Our Corporate Bureau | 16 Mar 2005
Bangalore: An anonymous midnight call to the Bangalore police control room claiming that a bomb had been planted in the campus of software major Infosys set the IT major's campus aflutter but it turned out be a hoax.
An exhaustive police search lasting hours the campus of the Nasdaq-listed company with the help of the bomb disposal squad and sniffer dogs revealed the threat to have been a hoax.
Last week, a similar anonymous call at the office of another software major Wipro in Bangalore had also turned out to be a hoax. A Wipro employee was arrested within hours on March 9 and police quoted him as having said that he made the call to expose the lax security in software companies.
The incident had, however, created panic as it came close on the heels of Delhi Police uncovering a plot by Laskhar-e-Taiba militants to target software companies in Bangalore.
