COLOMBO (News 1st); The Committee that was appointed to investigate Power System Failures on November 29th & December 3rd, 2021 has recommended that the Ministry of Power request the law enforcement agencies to investigate the events to determine if they were acts of sabotage.According to the Final Report of the Committee seen by News 1st, a Formal Investigation by the law enforcement authorities supported by independent IT experts, if necessary, is recommended to determine whether or not any human intervention had taken place.This committee was appointed by the Secretary to the Ministry of Power on the 3rd of December 2021, and the final report was submitted a week.According to the report of the committee chaired by Prof.
Lilantha Samaranayake of the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Faculty of Engineering of the University of Peradeniya, the blackout could have taken place due to two causes; natural causes or man-made causes.Although sufficient evidence exists to eliminate the first scenario, the committee has not yet seen sufficient evidence to eliminate the possibility of the blackout taking place due to a man-made deliberate action.Previously, the Ministry of Power announced that an issue on the transmission system from Kothmale to Biyagama was the cause of the Island-wide blackout.The island-wide blackout at the time affected water supply services, as well as transportation and public life.According to the report, which was published on 21st February along with the recommendation to publish on the Ceylon Electricity Board website (www.ceb.lk) immediately and the CEB response to the report by 21st March, underlines that the tripping sequence of the Kotmale-Biyagama 220kV transmission line leading.