India, Feb. 27 -- Indian authorities have interceded with their US counterparts to grant visas to relatives of an Indian woman battling for her life in a hospital in California after sustaining serious injuries in a road accident, people familiar with the matter said on Thursday.

Neelam Shinde, 35, from Satara district in Maharashtra, was critically injured when she was hit by a car while out for a walk on February 14. The student of California State University was admitted to UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento, where she is in the intensive care unit.

Shinde's family sought the government's help to get American visas for some relatives to travel to the US as soon as possible. The external affairs ministry has taken up the matter wit...