MANGALURU:Hundreds of people paid homage on Sunday to IT professional Prabha Arun Kumar (40), who was stabbed to death in Sydney a week ago.
Her husband Arun Kumar performed the last rites and lit the funeral pyre around 6.30 pm at her native place Amtoor in Kalladkal, Bantwal taluk.
The casket carrying her remains arrived at Mangalore International Airport in a special flight around 11.30 am and reached Amtoor around 12.15 pm. Arun, his 9-year-old daughter Meghana and other family members accompanied the body.
As soon as the body reached her house Nandagokula, family members, friends and residents of Amtoor and Kalladka started thronging the place to pay their last respects.
Arun, Prabha’s brothers Shankar Shetty and Shivaprasad, father Mahabala Shetty and mother Sarojini were inconsolable.
Meghana sat in a corner dazed by her tragic loss.
Health Minister U T Khader, Dakshina Kannada District In-charge Minister Ramanatha Rai, Mangaluru North MLA Moideen Bava, MLC Ivan D’Souza, MP Nalin Kumar Kateel, Puttur MLA Shakuntala Shetty and former minister Nagaraj Shetty were among those present.
Prabha was stabbed to death by an unidentified assailant while she was walking to her home through Parramatta Park in Sydney around 9.30 pm on March 7.
She was talking on the phone to her husband when the attack took place.