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We have initiated proceedings to recover Rs11 crore, including interest” from the three officials and Ind Bharat, he said. Ind Bharat sold about 131 million units of power using our transmission network. The loss to Tangedco is Rs9.17 crore. CHENNAI: Three senior engineers belonging to Tangedco have been suspended on charges of colluding with Ind Bharat, a private power generation company, and causing Rs11 crore loss to the state-owned power utility, said power minister P Thangamani in Chennai on Thursday.The minister was responding to the allegations of DMK president M K Stalin about Tangedco paying Rs9.17 crore to a wind power generation company without purchasing power from it.Asking Stalin to get his facts right, Thangamani said the issue pertains to Ind Bharat using TNEB’s transmission network to evacuate and sell thermal power to two other private entities without paying wheeling charges to the state electricity board.STINK OF SCAM‘Tangedco incurred loss of Rs 9 crore’An executive engineer, an assistant executive engineer and an assistant engineer have been suspended following a preliminary inquiry, said a Tangedco official.“It happened in 2016 November-December..