India, May 25 -- Three officials of Haryana Vidyut Prasaran Nigam Limited (HVPNL) were suspended for alleged negligence in duty following Friday night's massive blackout in Gurugram that disrupted power supply for nearly five hours and halted Rapid Metro services for 43 minutes, officials said on Sunday.

The order named the suspended officials as assistant electrical engineer (EE) Sandeep Singh and junior engineer (JE) Brijesh (single name), both posted at the 220kV substation in Palli, Faridabad, along with junior engineer (in-charge) Sandeep Nain, posted at the 220kV substation in Sector 72 where a current transformer blast triggered the outage. According to the order issued by the state government, "Consequent upon a major power suppl...