Mumbai was without power for about two hours on Monday. It was told that the power supply in the city was disrupted due to grid failure in the Mumbai metropolitan area. In this regard, recently, the state’s Energy Minister, Nitin Raut had said that the reason behind this may possibly be sabotage.

The Minister of Energy had said that the possibility of sabotage and fraud in the power supply disruptions in Mumbai, Thane, and Navi Mumbai on Monday cannot be ruled out. Nitin Raut said that a technical committee is being formed and that they will conduct a technical audit to check if there was a case of deliberate disruption or vandalism of any kind and who was responsible for it. The interim report will arrive within a week. Then action will be taken immediately based on the interim report. The various works around the city came to a significant standstill on Monday mid-day after the power supply was disrupted in the city.

The grid failed in the Mumbai metropolitan area at around 10.15 am on Monday, due to which electricity supply was disrupted in the city. Local train services were also affected due to power failure. Local trains were parked at their then-current locations. Due to this people had to face trouble during their commute and work.

Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport said that the power supply in the country’s financial capital was disrupted after the failure of the supply from Tata power supply. Several incidents of tripping of lines and transformers (Kalawa-Padghe and Khargar ICT) affected the 360 MW supply in the city and suburbs. After the Monday Power failure in Mumbai, the Maharashtra government has ordered a grid failure investigation to be carried out.