31 cases booked against bogus IT companies

HYDERABAD: The State Government on Thursday announced that31 cases were booked against bogus Information Technology (IT) Companies during the last three years up to February this year in Greater Hyderabad and Cyberabad while no cases were booked in other surrounding districts in the state. This was informed in the state Assembly by Minister for Home Sabita Indra Reddy to a question by A Rejender (Congress) during Question Hour in the House. To control bogus IT companies, the government is also considering setting up a Core Committee with concerned senior offi cers and stakeholders at the statelevel to prepare action plan, she said and added a close watch is kept to unearth the companies. Special parties were formed to arrest the absconding accused in the cases, she said adding some of the cases were handed over to CID for investigation. Awareness programmes are being conducted among public especially in engineering colleges and educational institutions regarding bogus software companies by giving wide publicity, she added.