KANPUR, May 24 -- Around 50 armed Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) personnel arrived at the Kanpur police commissionerate on Saturday in over a dozen vehicles, including trucks, and stayed outside the headquarters for more than an hour, prompting authorities to scrap an earlier medical inquiry and order a fresh joint probe into alleged negligence that led to a jawan's mother losing her arm.

The personnel had come in support of Vikas Singh, a constable with the 32nd Battalion in Maharajpur. His mother, Nirmala Devi, 56, was admitted to a private hospital in Tatmil on May 13 after she developed breathing problems and heavy traffic prevented them from reaching a referred facility. Singh alleged doctors inserted a cannula in her hand after ...