A woman rested for just two hours after giving birth before walking 99 miles with her newborn.
The mum, whose identity is not known, was walking across India with her husband and four children from the city of Nashik in Maharashtra to Satna in the adjoining state of Madhya Pradesh.
At some point during the journey she had to stop to give birth.
Four days later the family arrived at a checkpoint in Madhya Pradesh where they were stopped by official Kavita Kanesh.
He told CNN: "She just rested for about one and a half to two hours after she delivered.
"The family had no money, no means of transport, no one was giving them a lift."
According to the media outlet, the family had been forced to leave Nadish due to the coronavirus lockdown.
They had been left with no means to make any money and no place to stay.
Kanesh said that he made arrangements for the woman to be taken for treatment in a medical facility.
Many thousands of Indians have left cities during the lockdown to return to their home villages.
The plight of these people, many of whom form the labour backbone of the cities they have fled, has caused anger in the country.
In response to the public outcry, the Government has pledged to spend £378million on food for the migrants, the BBC reports.
The mothballing of many train and bus services have led people to take extremely long journeys on foot.
Several have died in making the journey, including 16 migrants who were run over by a train while they were sleeping on the railway tracks.
India has recorded more than 78,000 coronavirus cases and 2,551 deaths, according to John Hopkins University.
