For 30-year-old Shabana Parveen, it was nothing sort of a miracle -- giving birth to a heathy baby boy after surviving a murderous attack by rioters who kicked and assaulted her and her husband in northeast Delhi's Karawal Nagar.
Their home set afire by the mob, Parveen's family is now pinning their hopes on the newborn whom they called a "miracle baby".
Parveen, her husband, two kids and mother-in-law were sleeping inside the house on Monday night when a mob barged into their house.
Narrating their ordeal, Parveen's mother-in-law Nashima told PTI, "They hurled religious slurs, beat up my son. Some of them even kicked my daughter-in-law in the abdomen...as I went to protect her, they came charging at me... We thought we would not survive that night. But with god's grace we somehow managed to escape from the clutches of the rioters."
Six-year-old Ali, who held his one-day-old brother, caressing his forehead, said, "I will take care of him forever and save him from every ill."