Wife Sheela (left), daughter Aarathi and other relatives mourn as they pay their last respects to N Ramachandran, who was killed in Pahalgam terror attack.
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Thiruvanathapuram: Hundreds of people paid homage to Kochi native N Ramachandran, 65, who was killed in the Pahalgam terror strike.
Kerala governor Rajendra Arlekar, Goa governor P S Sreedharan Pillai, ministers and political party leaders were among those who paid homages to him.
The body was kept at Changampuzha park in Kochi for the public to pay homage on Friday morning and was later taken to his residence at Edappally. The funeral was held at the public crematorium with state honours.
Meanwhile, Ramachandran's daughter Aarathi came under cyber attack after he hailed two Kashmiri youths who supported her after the terror strike.
While narrating to reporters on Thursday about the Pahalagam incident, Aarathi had said that their cab driver Muzafar and another youth Sameeer supported her like brothers in carrying out the formalities after her father was killed in front of her. She also said that while leaving Kashmir she told them that they will have Allah's blessings.
After she made this statement, she came under communally toned cyber attack for praising the two Kashmiri youths. Some even accused her of not being emotional over her father's death and some accused that she was trying to gain publicity.
The online abuse on Aarathi was sequel to a hate campaign being carried out in the social media by vested interest groups over the Pahalgam attack.
The cyber police were learnt to be maintaining a vigil on the cyber space against the hate campaigns.