India, Sept. 8 -- A police constable was suspended after a video purportedly showing him threatening to shoot down a car driver while confronting him surfaced on social media on Friday, police said on Sunday.

The video clip shows him saying: "I will shoot you." HT, however, could not independently verify the video's authenticity.

"Taking cognizance of the viral video, police constable Sunil Kumar, who was posted at the police lines in Gautam Budh Nagar, has been suspended with immediate effect, and a departmental inquiry has been initiated against him," said additional commissioner of Police (Headquarter) (Gautam Budh Nagar) Ajay Kumar.

Officers said Kumar is suspected to have been in an inebriated condition at the time of the incident...