The Supreme Court website crashed on Thursday amid reports that some Brazilian hackers may have targeted it.
"Site under maintenance," read the message on the landing page of supremecourtofindia.nic.in.
"This site can't be reached," said another message on the page of the website maintained by the government-run National Informatics Centre (NIC) that creates e-governance applications.
Earlier, the site flashed an error message "Err_Socket_Not_Connected" which means that the site was facing a Domain Name System error.
However, images of the website circulated on social media, apparently captured soon after the top court rejected pleas for an independent probe into the death of Judge B.H. Loya, showed that it may have been attacked by a Brazilian hack team.
The screenshot showed an image of cannabis leaves with a message saying "hackeado por HighTech Brazil HacTeam".
NIC officials refused to speak on the issue.
For the latest tech news and reviews, follow Gadgets 360 on X, Facebook, WhatsApp, Threads and Google News. For the latest videos on gadgets and tech, subscribe to our YouTube channel. If you want to know everything about top influencers, follow our in-house Who'sThat360 on Instagram and YouTube.