A pregnant woman late Saturday night delivered a baby girl in a running Police control room (PCR) van of Channi Himmat police station before reaching a nearby hospital.
According to police, a SOS call was received by them past midnight to shift a pregnant woman to a nearby hospital.
Responding quickly, the police team reached the spot and picked three members including couple and a professional mid-wife. While they were enroute, pregnant woman delivered a baby girl in the running PCR van near railway station. After the delivery, the couple requested the police team to drop them home.
"We were lucky, police van came to our rescue without any delay even at his odd hour, Raju, proud father told media persons outside his home on Sunday. His wife Sonia, said she would name her daughter 'Vaishnavi'.
Meanwhile, taking advantage of deserted streets, thieves ran away with bottles of liquor and cash after breaking open the rear wall of the wine shop in Rehari area of Jammu late Saturday night.
The shop owner claimed, in the absence of sale register, it is difficult for him to make an assessment about the actual losses suffered by him. Police teams visited the area and took samples to track down the thieves in the area.Questions were also raised over the tight vigil maintained by the police on deserted streets and main roads. The shop was located on the main road near Indira Gandhi Dental college and the office of DG Prisons.