Centre denies external hands in Mumbai power outage
Published on : Wednesday 03-03-2021
Union power minister RK Singh said while there had been no evidence of a possible Chinese involvement, there have been attempts to hack the cyber systems.
New Delhi, March 02, 2021: The Indian government has rejected reports appearing in a section of the media that China had a hand in the power outage in India’s financial capital of Mumbai that had blacked out most parts of the mega city on October 12.
Union power minister RK Singh said while there had been no evidence of a possible Chinese involvement, there have been attempts to hack the cyber systems. “As far as the Chinese hand is concerned, we don’t have any evidence of a Chinese hand in the Mumbai incident. But there were some cyber-attacks or some hacking attempts at some of our load dispatch centres in November. Our teams got wise to the attacks and they informed our centres. Those centres carried out the audits,” Singh told the media.
The centre’s response to the media reports followed a strong rebuttal issued by China on the allegation. Responding to comments on China trying to bully India with cyber-attacks amid the border tensions, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said such claims were irresponsible.
In a statement shared by the spokesperson of Chinese Embassy in India on Twitter, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said: “As staunch defender of cyber security, China firmly opposes & cracks down on all forms of cyber-attacks. Speculation and fabrication have no role to play on the issue of cyber-attacks. Highly irresponsible to accuse a particular party with no sufficient evidence around.”
While the Maharashtra government has launched an investigation into the matter, the Centre rejected the allegations against China.
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