Puneeth Rajkumar laid to rest with state honours
Hindustan TimesLate actor Puneeth Rajkumar was laid to rest on Sunday morning at the Kanteerava Studios amid grieving family members, friends and thousands of fans. The late actor's family and the government had earlier planned to perform the last rites on Saturday evening, once his daughter, who was in the US, reached Bengaluru. Secondly, there is lot of crowd here and many people wish to see him for one last time, also after 6pm when it will be dark it will be difficult to perform last rites there.” Speaking to reporters here, he said keeping all this in mind and after discussing with Puneeth's elder brothers Shivarajkumar, Raghavendra Rajkumar and other family members, it wa decided to conduct the last rites on Sunday. Considered as the Kannada cinema’s reigning star, Puneeth, youngest of the five children of thespian and matinee idol Dr Rajkumar, died at the age of 46, after suffering a cardiac arrest on Friday.