Mumbai :Twenty years after her son was killed allegedly by the Mumbai police during the 1993 Bombay riots, Akhtari Tahir Hasan Wagle launched an indefinite hunger strike on Saturday seeking justice.

Ms. Wagle is demanding that an FIR be filed against eight policemen who allegedly killed her son. The Srikrishna Commission, appointed to investigate the riots, had termed Shahnawazs killing a cold-blooded murder and directed the State to institute an impartial inquiry.

No action was ever taken on that report.

Her path to justice was caught up in legal muddle. The High Court rejected her petition demanding justice to her son because a similar case was pending in the Supreme Court.

“I want justice for my son, but all my legal paths are blocked. I have no money to approach the Supreme Court and become a party in the pending petition there. I hope my hunger strike will draw the governments attention to this neglected case,” said Ms. Wagle.

The case in the Supreme Court was filed in 1998 by an NGO, Action Committee for Implementation of Srikrishna Report, led by Minority Affairs Minister of Maharashtra and Congress MLA Arif Naseem Khan. Ms. Wagles case was presented as an example of the denial of justice to riot victims, along with four other cases. The family was not informed that its case was mentioned in the petition. The case is pending in the Supreme Court for the last 15 years.