Bikini killer Charles Sobhraj reportedly critical in Kathmandu hospital

Quoting Sobhraj's s lawyer and mother-in-law Shakuntala Thapa, the report said the 73-year-old crime lord underwent  coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) on June 12 and his condition has been deteriorating since.

He is presently admitted to an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) amid tight security with multiple heath issues.His  kidneys have reportedly stopped functioning properly, Thapa has been quoted as saying by CNN-News 18.

Sobhraj, who was born from a Vietnamese mother and Indian father, has been accused of killing between 15 to 20 Western tourists across southeast Asia during the 1970s.

He also held a French passport which has now been confiscated.

Speaking to News18 over telephone from Kathmandu, Shakuntala Thapa, a lawyer, said, “I meet him in the hospital every day. My daughter Nihita also went to meet him. His condition is serious as he suffering from multiple ailments.”

“His heart, kidneys and lungs are not functioning properly. He is suffering from chronic kidney infection and should be given bail immediately on humanitarian grounds. It’s a matter of life and death,” she said.

“His legs have swollen up due to infection and he can’t even walk. He is finding it difficult to breathe as he has developed severe respiratory infection, News 18 quotes Thapa.

Sobhraj, whose real name is Hatchand Bhaonani Gurumukh, has spent almost 21 years in Indian jails. In 1986, he escaped from Tihar Jail. He was re-arrested and in 1997,  was released from Tihar and returned to France.

In 2003, he was in arrested by Nepal police from a Kathmandu hotel in connection with the  the 1975 murders of Connie Jo Bronzich and Laurent Carrière.

He was awarded life imprisonment by a Kathmandu court and since then has been lodged in Kathmandu Central Jail.

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