Mumbai: More trouble appears brewing for the Gujarat police as a woman here plans to move the Bombay High Court for reopening a probe into the killing of her 19-year-old daughter Ishrat Jahan Raza in an "encounter" in that State for her alleged terrorist activities.

"No one listened to us when we said it in 2004. But now that the truth has been exposed with the fake encounter case [of Sohrabuddin and his wife Kausar Bi], we hope that proper investigations will be conducted in the matter and justice delivered," Shamima Raza, Ishrat's mother, told PTI.

The family is seeking a CBI investigation, in the light of the arrest of Deputy Inspector-General D.G. Vanjhara in the Sohrabuddin case.

He was a senior officer in the Crime Branch when Ishrat, an undergraduate science student in a Mumbai college, along with three others, was killed in the June 15, 2004 encounter.

The Gujarat police alleged at that time that Ishrat and her companions were members of the Lashkar-e-Taiba and were planning to assassinate Chief Minister Narendra Modi, an allegation refuted by her family members. "We said there was some foul play involved but the matter was not taken up properly by our State Government, which should have done more," Ms. Shamima said.

Ms. Shamima said she and her three other children had had trying times after the death of Ishrat, who supported the family financially by taking tuitions.

Ishrat's younger sister Nushrat said, "It has now come out openly that all that was done at that time by the police was wrong and hopefully we will also receive justice."

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