Tuesday, March 15 2005 10:00 Hrs (IST) - World Time -

Bangalore: An anonymous call that a bomb has been planted at the campus of software major Infosys on Bangalore outskirts turned out to be hoax today (Mar 15, 2005).

Police said that the control room received an anonymous call at around midnight last night (Mar 14, 2005) and a search was carried out at the campus of the Nasdaq-listed company with the help of bomb squad and sniffer dogs but nothing was found.

"The search lasted few hours," they said.

Last week, a similar anonymous call at an office of another software major Wipro in Bangalore had also turned out to be a hoax. A Wipro employee was arrested within hours by the police who 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-Toiba (LeT) militants to target software companies in Bangalore.