KANPUR, May 28 -- In a shocking deadlock, the amputated right arm of an Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) jawan's mother has been lying in the malkhana (storeroom) of Kanpur's Railbazar police station, waiting for someone to put in writing who should move it.

The limb, sealed by investigators on May 20, was scheduled for a histopathology examination at the Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi Memorial (GSVM) Medical College seven kilometres away. It has yet to leave the police station.

Railbazar station house officer Aman Singh said the police could not move the limb without explicit written instructions from the chief medical officer (CMO), which have not yet been issued.

Deputy commissioner of police (East) Satyajit Gupta confirmed that the ampu...