India, Oct. 15 -- A 27-year-old woman was allegedly forced to give birth on the roadside in Palwal on Sunday afternoon after doctors at the local government hospital refused to attend to her without a fresh ultrasound report, her family and police said on Tuesday, adding that the baby was declared dead soon after.

Hospital staff allegedly told the woman's family that she could not be admitted for delivery until they produced a new ultrasonography report, despite the family showing one that was a week old. With no ambulance available, the woman's husband placed her on a motorcycle and drove to a private diagnostic centre nearby, according to the family's complaint filed with the police.

She never made it inside.

"She experienced severe ...