Kavita Karkare meets Sonia Gandhi

New Delhi, Nov 23 : Kavita Karkare, the widow of the Maharashtra Anti-Terror Squad's late chief Hemant Karkare, who was killed during the 26/11 terror attacks in Mumbai, Monday met Congress president Sonia Gandhi at her residence here.

According to Congress sources, Kavita raised with Gandhi issues pertaining to the victims of last year's terror strikes and said justice would be done only if Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab, the lone Pakistani terrorist captured alive during the attack, was hanged.

The meeting comes two days ahead of the first anniversary of the 26/11 attack which 10 Pakistani terrorists, including Kasab, mounted after sneaking into Mumbai by sea in November last year. Their killing spree and the bloody saga ended only when security forces killed all but one of them.

Karkare died owing to the injuries that he received from bullets two terrorists hiding behind bushes fired into his chest. The efficacy of the bulletproof jacket Karkare wore during the shootout has been debated even though the jacket is yet to be found.

Karkare's wife Kavita had filed a Right to Information (RTI) application, about the jacket. However, the Maharashtra state government informed her that the jacket was nowhere to be found as it had been misplaced in the melee that ensued in the hours when the wounded Karkare was brought to the JJ Hospital after being shot and the doctors had removed the jacket from his body.

Kavita last week also questioned the state government about the delay in reinforcements reaching her husband and two other officers killed in the 26/11 attacks.