Most people at a train station are just passing through, eyes on the clock, minds elsewhere, heading home or somewhere they need to be. Jhansi station, like any other, has seen thousands of such stories come and go. But on the afternoon of 5 July 2025, it paused just for a moment. And in that moment, something unexpected unfolded.

Major Rohit Bachwala, a 31-year-old army doctor from the Military Hospital in Jhansi, was waiting for his train to Hyderabad. He was not in uniform, was not on call, just another traveller, carrying a bag and thoughts of family waiting on the other side. The station was its usual blur of announcements, chai sellers, and tired passengers. Until a cry for help cut through the noise.

A cry for help cuts through noise

On a platform nearby, a pregnant woman had gone into sudden labour. She was travelling with her husband and child on the Panvel-Gorakhpur Express when the pain began, sharp, fast, and far too early. Her husband did what he could and sent an alert through the Rail Madad app,........

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