The body of Indian-origin nurse Jacintha Saldanha, who was found dead on December 07 in London, will be buried at Shirva town in coastal Karnataka on Monday, family sources said.
The coffin carrying Jacintha’s body, which arrived here from London via Mumbai, will be taken to Shirva on Monday for last rites and funeral at the local cemetery around 4 pm, a news agency said.
Jacintha’s husband Benedict Barboza and her son Junal,16, and daughter Lisha,14, will accompany the coffin to Shirva.
Security arrangements are being made at Shirva to maintain law and order and ensure no untoward incident takes place.
Shirva is the home town of Barboza where his mother and sisters reside. It is well known for growing jasmine flowers.
Saldanha, who graduated from Father Muller College of Nursing in Mangalore in the mid-1980s, first worked at Muscat in Oman for a few years and went to London after marriage 15 years ago to live with Barboza, an accountant in the British National Health Service at Bristol, 190km from London.
Jacintha was found unconscious on December 07 morning in the quarters of King Edward VII Hospital in central London where she was working as a senior nurse, and was pronounced dead when wheeled into the hospital in an ambulance.
Jacintha got unwittingly involved in a hoax call on December 04 from a radio station in Australia when she was on duty at the hospital where Duchess of Cambridge Kate Middletown was admitted on December 03 after she complained of acute morning sickness.
When the jockeys (Mel Greig and Michael Christian) from Sydney radio station called the hospital early December 04 imitating the voice of the Queen (Elizabeth) and the prince (Charles), Jacintha picked the call in the absence of the receptionist at that time (5.30 am) and transferred it to another duty nurse who briefed them on the health condition of the royal princess (Kate).
Though Kate was discharged on December 06, news about the prank call shocked the royal family and caused outraged the world over, especially in the British media.
–IANS