French serial killer Charles Sobhraj was released from jail in Nepal on Friday. Earlier on Wednesday, the Supreme Court of Nepal had issued an order to release Sobhraj on the basis of his health. However, the local jail authorities refused to release him immediately.
Earlier, Charles Sobhraj, the French son of Indian and Vietnamese parents, had to spend one more day in a Nepal jail. Immigration officials expressed their inability to arrange for the infamous ‘serial killer’ to stay. He is likely to be extradited after his release from jail.
A joint bench of Justice Sapna Pradhan Malla and Justice Tilak Prasad Shrestha on Wednesday ordered the release of 78-year-old Sobhraj from jail. Sobhraj’s lawyer Gopal Shivkoti Chintan told him that although all the formalities for his release from jail have been completed, he has to be handed over to the Immigration Department. Immigration officials have asked to postpone his release from jail till Friday as they (officials) have to make arrangements for his (Shobhraj) stay.
Known as ‘The Bikini Killer’ and ‘The Serpent’, Sobhraj has been serving a life sentence in a Kathmandu jail since 2003 for the murder of American woman Connie Jo Bronjich in Nepal in 1975. At the same time, in 2014, Sobhraj was convicted of the murder of Canadian citizen Lauren Carey and sentenced to life imprisonment for the second time. Life imprisonment in Nepal usually means 20 years of imprisonment.
'Bikini Killer' Charles Sobhraj released from Nepal prison today
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