BENGALURU: The TV screen in K Chandrasekhar 's Hebbal hospital room bore in bright, bold letters news he'd been waiting to hear for two decades. But he didn't twitch, but instead lay motionless, cut off from the delayed justice that was being served to him.Formerly India's representative to Russian space agency Glavkosmos and one of the seven accused in the 1994 ISRO spy case, Chandrasekhar, 76, slipped into a coma on Friday morning, hours before the Supreme Court verdict which acquitted him and space scientist Nambi Narayanan and associates of all charges. "We tried to show him TV grabs of the news but he was unconscious and didn't respond," a distraught K Vijayamma, Chandrasekhar's wife and former general manager at Hindustan Machine Tools (HMT) said. It was the day he'd been waiting for but when it finally arrived it was too late."On Sunday night, Chandrasekhar passed away and his family will never know if even a strain of the news that he lived to hear ever reached him.Chandrasekhar’s funeral was organised in Hebbal on Monday and was attended by his relatives and a few friends. The 76-year-old had been in a private hospital for over a month due to prolonged illness. He breathed his last at 8.44 pm in the Hebbal hospital on Friday.Working as India’s representative to Russian space agency Glavkosmos since 1992, Chandrasekhar spent the last two decades of his life in Vidyaranyapura , north Bengaluru, as a recluse after allegedly being tortured by Kerala police and IB sleuths.“What did they (Kerala police and IB sleuths) achieve in framing a false case? Who will be responsible for the trauma that we faced all these years? They ruined his career and our peace of mind. They attacked our house in Kerala, called him a traitor and harassed us. We want to know why they did it” said Vijayamma. The couple has no children.Family members said Chandrasekhar kept away from the limelight and lived a low-key life since the controversy broke out. “He was shattered after the incident. He always said that time would prove his innocence. We were also confident that he was innocent. But he could not pursue the case since his wife was working in a central government establishment and he was worried it would affect her job as they were dependent on her income,” said a relative.Chandrasekhar was allegedly stripped in front of interrogators, harassed and physically abused when he was in the custody of Kerala police and IB sleuths. On Friday, SC ruled that the Isro spy case was false and unnecessary and granted Narayanan a compensation of Rs 50 lakh. The case first surfaced after scientists Narayanan and D Sasi were arrested in 1994 on charges of handing over India’s indigenous space technology to Pakistan . In 1996, the CBI submitted to a Kerala court that the case was false, following which all the accused were discharged. Narayanan later alleged that the country’s intelligence officials were working in collusion with the CIA, with Isro being their primary target, and the scandal not only destroyed the careers of the accused scientists but also stalled work on the cryogenic engine development programme meant to power GSLV.