Muzaffarnagar (UP), Jul 17 (PTI) Three policemen, including an inspector, were suspended on Wednesday after a purported video showing them consuming alcohol in their office in Uttar Pradesh's Shamli district surfaced online, police said.

A liquor bottle and glasses used for making drinks were also seen in the video, they said.

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Inspector Sanjiv Kumar and head constables Anuj Kumar and Ashwani Kumar have been suspended after a video showing them drinking in the Dial-112 (emergency helpline) office in Shamli went viral on social media, an official statement issued here said.

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An inquiry has been ordered and the additional superintendent of police, Shamli, has been asked to probe the matter and submit a report, the statement said.

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