<p>New Delhi: TV journalist Soumya Vishwanathan's father MK Vishwanathan who fought a 15-year-long battle for justice for his daughter died in a hospital here, weeks after her daughter's killers were convicted.</p>.<p>Viswanathan, 82, was admitted in a Delhi hospital after a heart attack, two days before the hearing on the quantum of punishment to the four men who killed his daughter in 2008.</p>.<p>He died in the early hours on Saturday and has been cremated, police said.</p>.<p>Soumya was shot dead on the Nelson Mandela Marg when she was returning home from work in her car in the wee hours on September 30, 2008.</p>.Soumya Vishwanathan murder case: Four convicts sentenced to life imprisonment.<p>A police officer said that Vishwanathan through a video link heard Saket court announce life terms to Baljeet Malik, Ravi Kapoor, Amit Shukla, and Ajay Kumar on November 25. He was in the Intensive Care Unit then.</p>.<p>Vishwanathan's wife Madhavi along with his other daughter and son-in-law were present in the court when the judge announced the punishment for the killers.</p>.<p>Soumya's killers were convicted by the court on October 18.</p>.<p>MK Vishwanathan, a private firm employee, and his wife, a retired Delhi University lecturer, surmounted a difficult court battle for the justice of their daughter.</p>.<p>On October 18, while reacting to the verdict, Vishwanathan had told <em>PTI</em> that though his daughter would not return, he was happy that justice had been delivered.</p>
<p>New Delhi: TV journalist Soumya Vishwanathan's father MK Vishwanathan who fought a 15-year-long battle for justice for his daughter died in a hospital here, weeks after her daughter's killers were convicted.</p>.<p>Viswanathan, 82, was admitted in a Delhi hospital after a heart attack, two days before the hearing on the quantum of punishment to the four men who killed his daughter in 2008.</p>.<p>He died in the early hours on Saturday and has been cremated, police said.</p>.<p>Soumya was shot dead on the Nelson Mandela Marg when she was returning home from work in her car in the wee hours on September 30, 2008.</p>.Soumya Vishwanathan murder case: Four convicts sentenced to life imprisonment.<p>A police officer said that Vishwanathan through a video link heard Saket court announce life terms to Baljeet Malik, Ravi Kapoor, Amit Shukla, and Ajay Kumar on November 25. He was in the Intensive Care Unit then.</p>.<p>Vishwanathan's wife Madhavi along with his other daughter and son-in-law were present in the court when the judge announced the punishment for the killers.</p>.<p>Soumya's killers were convicted by the court on October 18.</p>.<p>MK Vishwanathan, a private firm employee, and his wife, a retired Delhi University lecturer, surmounted a difficult court battle for the justice of their daughter.</p>.<p>On October 18, while reacting to the verdict, Vishwanathan had told <em>PTI</em> that though his daughter would not return, he was happy that justice had been delivered.</p>