A constable in uniform was accused of shooting dead a man outside a hospital here on Wednesday over “personal enmity”.

Real estate trader Pravin Singh, 35, was coming out of Ram Manohar Lohia Institute of Medical Sciences at Gomti Nagar after meeting his ailing father when constable Ashish Mishra allegedly shot him with a revolver. As the constable threw the revolver in a drain and tried to run away, some people caught him and handed him over to the police.

The police said the cause of the enmity was being probed.