Hundreds pay homage to murdered Indian techie

Bengaluru, March 15 , 2015: Hundreds of people, including family members, colleagues and central and state ministers, on Sunday paid homage to the Indian software engineer who was murdered in Australia on March 7. The body of the 41-year-old Prabha from global IT consulting firm Mindtree was flown to the city on Saturday night. It was kept at her relative's house for people to pay their respects. "The last rites will be held at Prabha's village Amtur near Mangaluru on Sunday evening," a family member told IANS before the cortege was flown to Mangaluru by air ambulance. The village lies some 380 km away from here. Union ministers from the state, Ananth Kumar and D.V. Sadananda Gowda, Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, Home Minister K.J. George and Infrastructure Minister Roshan Baig were among the dignitaries who paid tributes to Prabha. Prabha's husband Arun Kumar and her elder brother Shankar Shetty accompanied the cortege from Sydney via Singapore. A company's senior representative and Prabha's colleagues also visited the house and mourned her tragic death. Prabha also leaves behind a nine-year-old daughter, Meghana. Even a week after Prabha was stabbed to death at Parramatta Park in Sydney's Westmead suburb when she was returning to her flat, investigation by Australian police have not traced the unknown assailant. ,