India, July 23 -- The Mumbai Police have ordered an inquiry and suspended a policeman after a video purportedly showing him threatening to implicate detained protesting students in a fake drug trafficking case went viral on social media, a Maharashtra home department official said on Thursday.

"Mumbai Police have ordered an inquiry into the matter and action will be taken after verifying the facts," the official said. The policeman, Pawan Sangle, has been removed from his posting pending the inquiry.

In the video, Sangle, a Mumbai Police driver, is seen warning students that he would plant packets of drugs in their pockets. One of the detained students recorded the video in a police van after they were picked up from a protest site and ...