Panchkula, July 21 -- A 22-year-old woman delivered a baby girl on the roadside, with the help of the Panchkula police's Durga Shakti team and cops from the women's police station in Sector 5, as her labour pains intensified before she could reach the hospital.

It all started around midnight when Lakshmi's husband, Anil, was rushing her to the hospital on their Activa scooter when her labour pains got excruciating. Unable to go any further, she sat on the roadside in pain.

A passerby, sensing the couple's distress, immediately alerted the police. Within five minutes, a team, led by in-charge Usman and woman constable Anjali, arrived at the spot.

"When we reached, we saw that the father was in shock, unable to move. And the mother. she ...