Sobhraj Verdict

• 'Bikini killer' Charles Sobhraj case: Timeline

  December 1975: The badly burnt bodies of American tourist Connie Jo Bronzich and an unidentified man found in Kathmandu valley. Police later claimed the body to be of Canadian Laurent Armand Carriere. 1976: Charles Sobhraj arrested in New Delhi and Nepal police put together new case claiming he visited Nepal and killed Bronzich. 1997: India frees S...

• Charles Sobhraj - The Nepal connection

  A sensational murder in Nepal in 1975, that the police blame Charles Sobhraj for is expected to finally laid to rest today.The Frenchman Sobhraj, sent behind bars for 20 years for the murder of American backpacker Connie Jo Bronzich, will either walk out a free man or pin his hopes on yet another long legal battle. Supreme Court judges Ram Prasad S...

• Nepal court postpones verdict on Charles Sobhraj by 15 days

  Nepal's apex court on Wednesday put off for two weeks its verdict in a murder case against Indian-origin 'bikini killer' Charles Sobhraj, saying it needed more time to pronounce the final judgement in the matter.A division bench of justices Ram Kumar Prasad Shah and Gauri Dhakal said the verdict would be pronounced on July 30 against the notorious ...

• 'Bikini killer' Sobhraj to be nailed: Nepal SC verdict awaited

  The fate of 'Bikini killer' Charles Sobhraj will be decided on 14 July, when Nepal's Supreme Court gives its final verdict on the long-pending sensational murder case of an American backpacker in 1975.Sobhraj was convicted by the Kathmandu district court in 2004 for the murder of American tourist Connie Jo Bronzich. The top court has fixed July 14 ...