An Indian national who was killed in a road accident in the Al Hilal area last week was buried in Abu Hamour on Friday.

The victim, 74-year-old Shaik Mohamed Rowther Dawood Sahib Haja Mohideen, had not travelled home for more than 30 years, it was published in an article in Gulf Times on Thursday.

Dawood Sahib was killed after a speeding vehicle knocked him down while he was crossing a road near his employer's house.

The burial took place after his son, Abdul Jaleel, produced at the Indian embassy some bonafide documents signed by revenue officials concerned at his native place in Tamil Nadu's Thanjavur district.

Jaleel said he had been working at a construction firm in Qatar since last year and lives in the Industrial Area.

The son said he had also obtained permission - from his mother and sister - for Dawood Sahib's local burial. However, the victim had earlier reportedly told his employer that his wife and daughter had died several years ago and hence did not go home for more than 30 years.

Jaleel, who confirmed that Dawood Sahib had indeed not visited home for over three decades, said his father last visited his family in Thanjavur sometime in the mid-80s. He said he learnt about his father's death on Wednesday evening after someone had put up a post on a social networking site earlier in the day.

Reacting to the report in Gulf Times, Jaleel said it was "owing to reasons known only to his father" that he avoided travelling home for nearly three decades. "I came to learn on Wednesday that my father had told his employer and others at his house that he had no interest in going home as his wife and daughter had passed away."

"However, my mother and sister are very much alive in our native place," said Jaleel, adding that he had come to Doha in 2012 on learning that his father was still alive and employed at a local home. "However, he refused to accompany me when I went back citing different excuses," remembered Jaleel, who last year landed a job with a local construction firm through some of his friends.

The son also wondered why Dawood Sahib did not tell the employer about Jaleel's real identity and relation with him even though he had gone to meet him on a few occasions. "I last met him some 25 days ago," he recollected.

On Thursday, the accident victim's sponsor - accompanied by Indian humanitarian worker Abdul Salam - met Indian embassy officials to discuss Dawood Sahib's burial. At that point, Jaleel also joined them and agreed to produce all bonafide documents, attested by the authorities concerned at their native place to prove his relationship with the deceased.