An Uttar Pradesh Home Guard personnel, suspended for allegedly taking a bribe, committed suicide on Thursday by jumping before a speeding train near Muzaffarnagar, the police said.

A native of Shamli, 48-year-old Suresh Pal had been suspended after a video showing him purportedly taking a bribe had gone viral, the police said, adding a departmental probe had been ordered against him. In another incident, a 23-year-old man committed suicide by hanging himself from the ceiling fan at his house in Karhera village of Muzaffarnagar district, the police said.