The final rites of Naveen Shekharappa Gyangoudar, the MBBS student who was killed in a shelling attack in Ukraine️'s Kharkiv on 1 March, were performed in his native village Chalageri in Karnataka on Monday, 21 March.
Naveen's mortal remains had arrived in Bengaluru in the early hours of Monday. His family conducted the rites as per Veerashaiva Lingayat traditions.
The mortal remains will be kept for public viewing till 2 pm, after which his body will be donated to Davangere's SS Hospital.
Calling Naveen's demise unfortunate, Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai paid his last respects to the MBBS student and thanked the central government for their efforts in bringing back his mortal remains.
Bommai shared a video of the same and said, "Received and honoured body of our student Naveen Gyanagoudar killed in indiscriminate bomb shelling in Russia-Ukraine war."
Meanwhile, Naveen's father, Shankarappa, had earlier said that they will perform the rituals as per their tradition and then they will donate Naveen's body to the Hospital, news agency ANI reported.
Naveen Shekharappa Gyanagoudar, a fourth-year student of forensic science at the Kharkiv National Medical University, was standing in a queue to buy groceries at a supermarket in Kharkiv when Russian shelling began in the city on the morning of 1 March.
The 21-year-old Indian student lost his life in a bomb attack that targeted the Governor's House in the city.
He had spoken to his father not long before stepping out of the bunker he had been sheltering in, to buy food.
The government had granted Rs 25 lakh as compensation to Naveen's family besides assurance to help his brother.
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