New Delhi: The family of Naveen Shekarappa Gyanagoudar, the 21-year-old medical student who was killed in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv on March 1, has decided to donate his body for medical research.According to The Hindu, his body, which is expected to arrive in Bengaluru on Monday, will be donated to the S. S. Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre in Davanagere after the final rites are performed.Karnataka chief minister Basavaraj Bommai has said the body would arrive in Bengaluru on Monday and not on Sunday as was stated earlier.“The body of Naveen Gyanagouda, who was recently killed in Ukraine in Russian shelling, will be brought to Bengaluru on Monday at 3 am,” the chief minister tweeted on Friday.“ಇತ್ತೀಚೆಗೆ ಉಕ್ರೇನ್ ನಲ್ಲಿ ರಷ್ಯಾ ದಾಳಿ ಸಂದರ್ಭದಲ್ಲಿ ಮೃತ ಪಟ್ಟ ಹಾವೇರಿ ಜಿಲ್ಲೆಯ ಯುವಕ ನವೀನ್ ಗ್ಯಾನಗೌಡರ್ ಅವರ ಪಾರ್ಥಿವ ಶರೀರ ಸೋಮವಾರ ಬೆಳಗಿನ ಜಾವ 3 ಗಂಟೆಗೆ ಬೆಂಗಳೂರಿಗೆ ಆಗಮಿಸಲಿದೆ” : ಮುಖ್ಯಮಂತ್ರಿ @BSBommai— Basavaraj S Bommai (@BSBommai) March 18, 2022He had told reporters that the body would arrive on Sunday.Officials close to him said there was confusion on the arrival.“It has been clarified now that the body will arrive on Monday and not on Sunday as was stated earlier,” an official close to Bommai told PTI.A fourth-year medical student in Kharkiv city, Naveen was killed when he ventured out of his bunker to get some food, water and exchange money.The 22-year-old student from Chalageri village in Ranebennur Taluk of Haveri in Karnataka was the second son of Shekarappa Gyanagouda. Gyanagouda has been demanding his son’s body to be brought to India for final rites.Several Indian students were caught in conflict zones in the eastern part of Ukraine after the country was invaded by Russia. All of them have returned to India, according to the Ministry of External Affairs.(With PTI inputs)