Vikas Walkar, the 65-year-old father of Shraddha Walkar—who was hacked into multiple pieces by her live-in partner Aftab Poonawala in Delhi’s Mehrauli area in May 2022—died of heart attack at his house in Vasai on Sunday.

Vikas had been fighting for justice for his daughter, whose last rites are yet to be conducted because pieces of her bones, which the Delhi police had collected from the jungle areas, are yet to be handed over to her family.