No relief for ‘Bikini killer’ Sobhraj

Nepal's Supreme Court failed to pronounce its verdict on the appeal of Charles Gurmukh Sobhraj, the criminal mastermind who has been serving life term in Kathmandu's Central Jail in connection with the murder of an American tourist in the Himalayan state three decades ago.

Nepal’s Supreme Court failed to pronounce its verdict on the appeal of Charles Gurmukh Sobhraj, the criminal mastermind who has been serving life term in Kathmandu’s Central Jail in connection with the murder of an American tourist in the Himalayan state three decades ago.

A joint bench of justices Min Bahadur Raymajhi and Kalyan Shrestha heard the appeal of Sobhraj against the verdict of the Kathmandu District Court, which had sentenced him to life imprisonment in July 2004 on charges of murdering the American tourist.

However, the top court did not give any verdict and the hearing on the case has been continued, a court official said.

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He said the hearing could not be completed today as there was another important case pending in the court for immediate attention.

The court will give another appropriate time to continue the hearing, the official added.

Nicknamed the ‘Bikini killer’ and ‘Serpent’ Sobhraj has been accused of luring young women and killing many of them.

The 64-year-old celebrity criminal, who has been splashed in the international media recently for his “engagement” to a Nepali girl Nihita Bishwas, was arrested from a Kathmandu casino in September 2003. Sobhraj’s fiancé was present in the court during the one-and-half-hour-long hearing.

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Sobhraj, who has pleaded innocence, was brought to the court amid tight security, with large number of mediapersons keeping an eye on the hearing.

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