Swami Premananda dies | Sri Premananda dead in hospital

Premananda, who is serving double life imprisonment for rape and murder died in a city hospital today. He was admitted to the Global Hospital with end-state liver disease.

Last week doctors had entered the controversial godman’s name as a “super urgency” case in the state cadaver organ registry and urged the registry to consider him ahead of others in the waiting list for a transplant. He had developed an acute infection that led to end-stage liver disease, according to doctors. But his health condition progressively deteriorated since Saturday. On Monday morning, doctors even withdrew his name from the cadaver organ registry as he went into a multi-organ failure.

Premananda, who was born in Sri Lanka, came to India as a refugee during the ethnic riots in 1983. He established an orphanage for children in Tiruchy in 1989. In 1997, he was sentenced to double life by the court. Since then, Premananda was lodged in the Cuddalore prison. The Madras high court and Supreme Court upheld the verdict.

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