Mumbai power outage could have been cyber sabotage, says minister

A woman and her daughter light a candle inside their house after a power outage in Mumbai, India, October 12, 2020. REUTERS/Niharika Kulkarni/Files

MUMBAI (Reuters) - A power failure that crippled India's financial capital of Mumbai in western Maharashtra state last year could have been a case of cyber sabotage, a local minister said on Monday, as China denied a report that it was behind the outage.

Mumbai police were investigating further after a preliminary report pointed to possible evidence of 14 "Trojan horse" programmes incorporated in the city's power system, Anil Deshmukh, a minister for Maharashtra state, told a news conference.