In the wake of hacking of government department websites two-days before the releasing of state budget in the House, the state government had decided to form a committee to prevention of white collar crimes economic offences related to IT ITES industry. The decision was taken at a meeting convened on IT industry related Economic offences by state minister of IT and Communications Mr Ponnala Lakshmaiah here.
During the meeting, the minister advised the IT Secretary to form a committee with all the stake holders in the meeting to specifically list out an action plan to curtail these activities. The meeting also decided to finalise the modalities for prevention of cyber crimes and on punishing white collar criminals in the next meeting to be held in the last week of this month. The action plan would also include empowering CID with additional power to attach properties of white collar criminals to reimburse the victims of such crimes.
In the recent past, there had been cases of IT and ITES Companies suddenly closing down their operations without notice to competent authorities and specially cases where IT and ITES Companies collection huge some of cash from unemployed youths promising lucrative jobs and subsequently vanishing. UNI