Bengaluru: The 24-year-old city youth who died in Brooklyn, New York, and gave new lease of life to nine patients in United States, was laid to rest on Thursday at his ancestral town Tayalur in Mulubagal in Kolar distict, 120 kilometres from here near the AP border.
Rajeev Naidu’s body arrived at the Bengaluru International Airport at around 8.30 pm on Wednesday and after the paperwork, it reached his house in Vidyanagar, Bommasandra in Electronic City around 1 am.
His body was kept for paying homage for relatives, friends and his neighbours until about 10 am, after which it was taken in an ambulance to Tayalur for final rites, his close friend Pavan told Deccan Chronicle. “Rajeev was a hero for us in the area. His favourite cricket players were Dhoni and AB De Villiers, he always used to praise both of them. His favorite movie actor was Mahesh Babu. He did very well in studies and had a helping nature, respecting all whom he met and making them friends,” said Pavan, his childhood friend for over 10 years. All of us in the area had gone along with Rajeev’s body to Mulubagal for the cremation, Pavan added.
Rajeev Naidu, who was declared brain dead after he suffered from a lung infection and choked while vomiting in Brooklyn in New York, had donated his heart, eyes, kidneys, pancreas, liver, bone marrow and oesophagus at The Brooklyn Hospital Center in New York. He was pursuing his masters in engineering at the New York University in Washington Square South.
