Mumbai: Woman gives birth on Kurla road, police take mother, infant to hospital

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A 30-year-old woman delivered a baby on a road in Mumbai's Kurla area Thursday prompting the police to rush the mother and her newborn to a civic hospital, an official said.

An official from VB Nagar police station said they were informed in the afternoon about a woman giving birth to a baby near Kamani Junction, news agency PTI reported.

The woman, identified as Suvarna Mirgal, became unconscious after the delivery. The Nirbhaya Squad of the police station rushed to the spot and shifted her and the infant to the nearby civic hospital, he said, adding that both are doing fine.

Later, senior inspector Rajeen Chavan and other officials visited the woman and her baby at the hospital, he said.

Muslim family converts to Hinduism at Dhirendra Krishna Shashtri's event

Meanwhile, a Muslim family converted to Hinduism at an event of religious leader Dhirendra Krishna Shastri here.

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The three-day event -- a 'Ram Katha' or discourse on Lord Ram's life -- at the Ayodhya Nagari ground had been organised by Union minister of state for finance Dr Bhagwat Karad.

"After hearing the Katha, ten people who followed the Muslim religion became Sanatani from today," Shastri, head of the Bageshwar Dham 'peeth' (Hindu religious centre) in Madhya Pradesh, announced from the stage on Wednesday.

"Did anyone force you?" he asked the family which hailed from Ahmednagar district of Maharashtra.

Jamil Nizam Shaikh, the head of the family, replied that he followed "Sanatan Dharma" since childhood and had approached Shastri through the Bajrang Dal.

"I was not forced by anyone," he added.

He also said his family had long worshipped Lord Ram and Krishna and celebrated the Ganesh festival.

When asked by reporters, Karad said his party, the BJP, had nothing to do with the event.

"A Muslim family became Hindu at the event of Dhirendra Krishna Shashtri. They were asked whether there was any pressure on them. They denied....This has no connection with the Bharatiya Janata Party," the Union minister said. (With inputs from PTI)