26/11 martyr Hemant Karkare's widow Kavita Karkare organs donated

Mumbai: Kavita Karkare, widow of Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad chief Hemant Karkare, martyred during the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack, died at a city hospital today after she suffered brain haemorrhage. 

Kavita, 57, was admitted to the P D Hinduja hospital on Saturday. 

 

She had slipped into coma and was on ventilator, hospital sources said. Her last rites would be performed at Shivaji Park crematorioum tomorrow, police sources said. 

Her children, two daughters and a son have consented to donating her organs to needy persons, a statement from the hospital said. 

 

Kavita, a college professor, was earlier declared brain dead by the hospital. She was vocal about the security lapses that she felt led to the attack on Mumbai and her husband’s death in an ambush by Pakistani terrorists on the night of November 26, 2008. 

 

Kavita had also been demanding better weapons, training and facilities for police personnel. Karkare was killed along with Additional Police Commissioner Ashok Kamte and senior police inspector Vijay Salaskar when terrorists fired at their vechicle near Cama Hospital in south Mumbai on the fateful night.