The four-hour-long rasta roko undertaken by mill workers on Thursday on the arterial SV Road in Bandra (West) spelt disaster for a 28-year-old pregnant woman who lost her new-born girl after delivering her enroute in a taxi as she could not reach the hospital in time.

Parveen Bilakiya was eight months pregnant when she started getting labour pains around 10 am at her Mahim residence. As the male members of her household had already left for work, her sister-in-law Sajida Bilakiya (35) decided to rush her to Bhabha hospital for the delivery and hailed a taxi. To their great shock, the taxi got stuck in a severe traffic jam on the arterial SV Road at Mahim for nearly 40 minutes due to the mill workers' agitation.