<p>The Supreme Court on Tuesday came to the rescue of a pregnant woman, by directing the Union government to make necessary arrangements for her to travel to India from the US.</p>.<p>The Centre agreed to let the woman, in the advanced stages of pregnancy, board the flight from San Francisco to Bengaluru on Wednesday.</p>.<p>Taking up the matter, a bench of L Nageswara Rao, S Abdul Nazeer and Sanjiv Khanna asked Solicitor General Tushar Mehta to consider the plea made by Pooja Choudhary.</p>.<p>Initially, the court wanted to put her plea for consideration on Wednesday, but her counsel Sanjay M Nuli submitted that her petition would become ineffective as an Air India flight was scheduled to take off from San Francisco on May 13.</p>.<p><a href="http://-"><strong>For latest updates on coronavirus outbreak, click here</strong></a></p>.<p>Nuli also submitted that the top court had passed an order in another case, directing that priority for evacuation be given to a group of women from the UAE as they were in the advanced stages of pregnancy.</p>.<p>Stuck in the US for over three months after flights were suspended due to the global COVID-19 crisis, Pooja, her husband and their 18-month-old daughter had approached the Supreme Court as any delay in evacuation would pose a danger to her health.</p>.<p>The petitioners contended that they were stranded in Dayton, Nevada, where most hospitals were being used for the treatment of COVID-19. They said they could afford treatment in private hospitals and did not have insurance, too. Pooja, a resident of Bengaluru, said she wanted to deliver her child in India. The expected date of delivery is July 17.</p>
<p>The Supreme Court on Tuesday came to the rescue of a pregnant woman, by directing the Union government to make necessary arrangements for her to travel to India from the US.</p>.<p>The Centre agreed to let the woman, in the advanced stages of pregnancy, board the flight from San Francisco to Bengaluru on Wednesday.</p>.<p>Taking up the matter, a bench of L Nageswara Rao, S Abdul Nazeer and Sanjiv Khanna asked Solicitor General Tushar Mehta to consider the plea made by Pooja Choudhary.</p>.<p>Initially, the court wanted to put her plea for consideration on Wednesday, but her counsel Sanjay M Nuli submitted that her petition would become ineffective as an Air India flight was scheduled to take off from San Francisco on May 13.</p>.<p><a href="http://-"><strong>For latest updates on coronavirus outbreak, click here</strong></a></p>.<p>Nuli also submitted that the top court had passed an order in another case, directing that priority for evacuation be given to a group of women from the UAE as they were in the advanced stages of pregnancy.</p>.<p>Stuck in the US for over three months after flights were suspended due to the global COVID-19 crisis, Pooja, her husband and their 18-month-old daughter had approached the Supreme Court as any delay in evacuation would pose a danger to her health.</p>.<p>The petitioners contended that they were stranded in Dayton, Nevada, where most hospitals were being used for the treatment of COVID-19. They said they could afford treatment in private hospitals and did not have insurance, too. Pooja, a resident of Bengaluru, said she wanted to deliver her child in India. The expected date of delivery is July 17.</p>
