India, May 17 -- The Maharashtra government has tightened its noose around bike taxi services provided by online apps such as Ola, Uber and Rapido as the government maintains that bike taxis are not allowed to operate in the state.

In connection with this, transport minister Pratap Sarnaik early this week ordered the cyber crime department of the police to shut down unauthorised bike taxi apps of aggregators such as Ola, Uber and Rapido, and register cases against the owners of these firms, PTI reported.

Maharashtra's cyber department on Friday served notices to Apple and Google ordering removal of Ola, Uber and Rapido apps from their app stores over illegal bike taxi operations.

However, the plan as of Saturday was on hold, The Indian...