Nepal indicts Sobhraj for ’75 murders

Prosecutors in Nepal charged confessed serial killer Charles Sobhraj on Monday with the murder of two backpackers in 1975. Officials at Kathmandu district court said a preliminary hearing will determine whether there is sufficient evidence to go to trial.

Sobhraj is suspected in the unsolved 1975 murders of two backpackers.

‘‘The government case is very weak,’’ Sobhraj’s lawyer Sanjeev Ghimire said. Sobhraj was arrested at a casino in Kathmandu last month and charged with immigration violations for allegedly using a fake passport to enter Nepal in 1975.