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Supreme Court Of Nepal Upholds Ruling On Sobharaj
By KTM Metro Reporter
July 30, 2010: the Supreme Court of Nepal has upheld the ruling of ‘The Kathmandu District Court’ and ‘The Patan Appellate Court’ on sentencing Charles Sobhraj for life-term jail for the murder of US citizen Connie Jo Bronzich in 1975. He had been claiming that he was not in Nepal in 1975.
The apex court of Nepal has taken into account the Sobhraj's statement given an Indian court that he had traveled to Nepal with his girlfriend Mary. Sobhraj has been involved in a series of killings of backpacker tourists across Asia. He has already spent seven years in jail in the murder case of Bronzich. In Nepal, life-term means a 20-year jail. Sobhraj now 66 might come out of the jail alive after 13 years.
Nepal Police arrested Sobhraj during his second visit in 2003 and The Kathmandu District Court convicted him of murder in 2004, and The Patan Appellate Court upheld it in 2005. He moved the case to the Supreme Court of Nepal in 2006 challenging the lower courts' verdicts.
Sobhraj is known as the "bikini killer.
