Appellate Court upholds life imprisonment to Charles Sobhraj
The Appellate Court of Lalitpur Thursday upheld last year’s Kathmandu District Court’s verdict of life imprisonment to notorious international criminal Charles Sobhraj Gurumukh convicting him of murdering two tourists in Nepal in 1975.
Convicting him in the murder of two foreign tourists in Kathmandu , the Kathmandu District Court (on August 12, 2004) had passed him a life imprisonment (20 years) sentence. The court had also ordered that all his property be confiscated.
A division bench of judges Krishna Prasad Shrestha and Atma Ram Bhattarai upheld the verdict saying the evidence used against him was correct.
The court last year had established the claim of the police that Sobhraj, who entered Nepal with another person’s passport, had murdered a Canadian and an American tourist back in 1975.
Sobhraj is a Vietnamese-Indian by birth and French national by adoption, reports said. nepalnews.com pd Aug 04 05
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