Ahmedabad: Panic briefly spread among commuters on the East-West corridor of the Ahmedabad Metro Rail on Thursday afternoon after a public display screen at the Rabari Colony station showed an error message with Chinese characters and the announcement system abruptly shut down.However, the metro rail services were not disrupted, and operations continued without delay.The unusual combination of a “404 error” along with Chinese script led several passengers to suspect that the metro system had been hacked. However, officials from the Gujarat Metro Rail Corporation (GMRC) denied any security breach and attributed the incident to a technical glitch.According to metro rail authorities, the disruption occurred around 1 pm. “There was a temporary fault in the public information display system, which uses Chinese hardware. Simultaneously, the announcement system failed due to a separate technical issue,” an official said.GMRC clarified that the two incidents were unrelated. The display error may have been triggered by physical interference, such as someone accidentally disturbing the connecting wire, while the announcement system’s failure was being treated as an isolated technical fault. “There is no evidence of hacking or any external breach,” the officials assured.
