Theweeklyobserver vol 13 issue 8

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Observer The weekly

Tuesday, September 24, 2013

VOL 13 ISSUE 8

ree among every ten buildings in the Garden City ignore compulsory rain water harvesting scheme

One year aer rape of a student, surroundings remain unsafe around National Law School of India University

Bangalore’s own Sudarshan B Nagaraj killed in Nairobi Mall Attack :

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‘Is it a sin to go to a mall?’ Sister of Bangalore’s only victim of Nairobi terror attack Sudarshan B Nagaraj says ‘Everything is over. We are going through hell’

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e mall sits in the heart of an Indian community in Nairobi. Sudarshan’s shattered family was

Nairobi Attack - Special Report

sent a gruesome photograph of Nagaraj’s blood-soaked corpse in order to identify him. e 49-year-old book publisher had only flown to Nairobi on Friday. He was killed in cold blood by militants in Westgate Mall sometime over the weekend. He had been shot once through the temple.

A Bangalore businessman was ex-

Speaking at the family home in

ecuted in cold blood by terrorists

Hejjala, Bangalore, his sister Naga-

who stormed a shopping mall in

mani Prasad, 59, said: “e Indian

Kenya.

embassy in Nairobi initially identi-

Sudarshan B. Nagaraj is believed to

fied his body by the cards he had on

Victim Sudarshan B. Nagaraj (in black) with sister Nagamani (front right) and his other siblings

be the only Bangalore based victim

him. e embassy mailed his pho-

to Tirupati. e shaved head makes

heard about the attacks at the mall,

e family is expecting the body to

of the attack on Westgate Mall in

tograph to us to confirm his iden-

it look even more awful.”

they wanted to know if he was safe.

arrive by tomorrow evening or the

the country’s capital Nairobi.

tity.”

“ We are not sure if it was a sudden

His sister called him continuously

day aer tomorrow.

Militants stormed the mall on Sat-

“e picture is very awful. Nobody

attack or not. He was shot in the

but there was no answer. “ I must

“My brother had said that he would

urday and began shooting indis-

can sleep at night aer looking at

temple.

He must have gone

have called him a hundred times on

come back home within four days.

criminately. e incident, which is

the picture. Blood is oozing out of

through a lot of agony,” said Naga-

Sunday but I couldn’t get through.

He was supposed to come back to-

still on-going, has so far claimed 69

his body. He had shaved his hair fif-

mani Prasad.

en we lodged a complaint in the

morrow in person, now most prob-

lives, including two other Indians.

teen days back when they had gone

Sudarshan B. Nagaraj had gone to

Indian Embassy at Nairobi on

ably his body will come home,” said

Nairobi on Friday for business pur-

Monday morning,” said Nagamani

Nagamani.

poses and was supposed to come

Prasad.

Sudarshan B. Nagaraj was an indus-

Sudarshan B Nagaraj

back to India on Wednesday. e

Aer the family confirmed his

trialist who had a business in con-

A 49-year-old industrialist who lived in Bidadi with his family. He was the fourth sibling and the youngest in his family. He was handling most of his company’s business in Africa. He was a bachelor who was known for being helpful

family got the confirmation of his

identity, they sent the manager of

crete mixture and book publishing.

death on Monday at 7.30 pm from

the company to get his body back

He mostly looked aer their busi-

the Indian Embassy in Kenya.

to India. ey have to go through

ness in Africa and so oen travelled

On Saturday aernoon at 1.15pm,

three stages including the Kenya

to Ghana.

Nagamani talked to her brother on

government, Kenya police and In-

the phone. at was the last conver-

dian Embassy in Kenya to get Su-

and for his charity.

sation they had. When the family

darshan’s body back.

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