The family also accused the Maharashtra health department for delaying an enquiry into the death.

'We have filed the case but the police is helpless. We know that the police commissioner has written to the health minister asking about the health committee that was to be set up to probe the incident. But so far nothing has been done.

'There is some nexus involved here - between the Jehangir hospital (where Reeda died Aug 3), Ruby Hall (the lab where she was tested earlier) and the health ministry officials,' the family alleged.

Slamming union Health Secretary Naresh Dayal's statement that the effect of swine flu in the country is 'minimal' and that the situation is under control, Ayesha further said: 'If he says that the effect of the virus is still minimal, then it will be minimal even if a 100,000 people die of swine flu.'

Reeda Shaikh's family has filed a case of criminal negligence against the private Jehangir Hospital where she was admitted and the Ruby Hall Clinic that conducted a test on her.