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Published on: 23 December 2022 at 13:50 IST
Toady French serial killer Charles Sobhraj going to get released from Central Jail in Nepal as per it’s Supreme Court order.
Supreme Court of Nepal ordered the release of Sobhraj on the grounds of old age and deteriorating health conditions.
Ishwori Prasad Pandey, the Jailer at Central Jail in Kathmandu said, “Kept in prison here at Central Jail for a long time, the French national Charles Sobhraj has been ordered to be released by the Supreme Court on 21st December”.
“We checked the records of Kathmandu and Bhaktapur District Court and have requested clearance from them over the cases registered against him. We are now preparing to release him from prison and then we will hand him over to the Department of Immigration. We will take him to the department after they finish their preparations,”.
It is Reported that the notorious criminal has also appealed to Nepal authorities to let him stay in a hotel and undergo open heart surgery. But the authorities are yet to decide on this Plea.
Sobhraj is Accused of the American citizen Connie Jo Boronzich, 29, and his Canadian girlfriend Laurent Carriere, 26, in 1975. Arrested on September 19, 2003, Sobhraj’s lifetime imprisonment would end on September 18 next year. The French citizen with Vietnamese and Indian parentage committed a string of murders throughout Asia in the 1970s.
Sobhraj, who has been implicated in more than 20 killings, served 21 years in India for poisoning a French tourist and killing an Israeli national. Sobhraj was also awarded a 20-year jail term in 2014 after being found guilty of a second murder, of a Canadian tourist Laurent Carriere, who was killed in 1975. The French serial killer was arrested in 2004 after he was first spotted in a Kathmandu casino.
