The incident took place on April 17 when Uddhav Singh Joshi (70), a resident of Naugaon town, had come to the district hospital in Chhatarpur for his wife’s medical check-up.

In his letter to the attorney general, advocate Anas Tanveer said Nishikant Dubey’s remarks are “deeply derogatory and dangerously provocative”.

Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta flagged off 1,111 water tanks for the Jal Board and said that people would be able to monitor the location of the GPS-enabled tankers with the help of the tanker application.