Srinivas Kuchibotla, the Indian engineer who was killed last week in the Kansas city, USA in a suspected hate crime, will be cremated in Hyderabad on Tuesday.

His family will perform the last rites at Jubilee Hills crematorium at around at 1130 in the morning.

His body will be flown in from the US later tonight. It will be accompanied by his wife Sunaina, brother, sister in law and a friend. Officials of Indian and Telangana government were in touch to ensure that the process was completely without any further delay.

From the airport the body will be driven to the family home at Dindigul in the outskirts of Hyderabad where Srinivas’ parents were in deep shock. Family sources said that Sriniva’s father Madhusudhan Shastri has asked his younger son, who was also in the USA to shift to India.

The family home at Praneet Bounty Township was wearing a gloomy look as grief stricken family members and relatives had gathered to make arrangements for the funeral tomorrow.

“We were expecting Srinivas to visit Hyderabad in June. We never thought he will come like this”, said one of his cousins. A framed portrait with two pictures of smiling Srinvas was kept outside the home with a heap of red flowers were lying on the ground as a mark of homage to the young man.

Union Ministers M Venkaiah Naidu and Bandaru Dattatreya and the state’s minister for Information Technology K Taraka Rama Rao had visited the family home on Sunday to console the bereaved family.

While the government of India had announced all the arrangements to bring the body home, media reports from Kansas say that a fund of $ 600,000 was raised for Srinivas and his family through crowd funding. Another campaign raised $100,000 for Srinivas and his injured Indian friend Alok Reddy Madasani. Another $ 30000 were collected through campaign for Alok’s treatment and $ 400,000 for an American citizen Grillot who was injured while trying to save the Indian engineers from the bullets of the shooter.