Mangalore : Hundreds of friends, well-wishers as well as fellow businessmen paid their last respects to Manmohan Mally, owner of Abhiman Constructions, who met a tragic end in an accident while travelling in a train near Udupi in the early hours of October 15, Monday.

The last rites were performed in a private cremation ground near his residence at Kavoor in Mangalore on Monday evening.

Several prominent persons including former minister Krishna Palemar, builders K.C.Naik, Rohan Monteiro, Srinath Hebbar, Sadananda Shetty of Sri Devi College paid their last respects to the departed builder