Shatabdi Hospital authorities have initiated an inquiry into a negligence case, after mid-day reported how Surekha Tiwari, who was in labour, was made to wait for nearly eight hours in the hospital, only to be turned away and told to seek treatment at Nair hospital. This newspaper had also highlighted how the 26-year-old ended up giving birth on a local train, with little else to hold the infant but her salwar.

mid-day has exclusive access to CCTV footage in which Surekha's husband Sushil can be seen taking her in his arms after she delivered the baby in her salwar. RPF Head Constable Vijay Pratap Singh and a GRP Head Constable had helped him to catch a taxi on Elphinstone Road station's road overbridge.