The Sobhraj storyline (To go with: No evidence against me: Charles Sobhraj)
July 14th, 2010 - 1:25 pm ICT by IANSBy Sudeshna Sarkar
Kathmandu, July 14 (IANS) Charles Sobhraj’s crime history and legal battle in Nepal:
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 Sobhraj from Tihar Jail and extradites him. Both the Indian and French governments ask Nepal if there are any cases against him but Nepal says no.
September 2003: Sobhraj visits Kathmandu and is recognised by a local daily, who publish his photo. It leads to police arresting him and charging him with coming to Nepal in 1975 on a false passport. Court dismisses false passport case. Police re-arrest him for Bronzich’s murder.
2004: Kathmandu district court finds him guilty, sends him to prison for 20 years. Sobhraj fights the conviction.
2005: Patan Appellate Court upholds the guilty verdict. Sobhraj appeals in Supreme Court.
2006: Supreme Court begins to hear his appeal.
2008: Sobhraj claims to have married his fiancée Nihita Biswas inside prison.
(Sudeshna Sarkar can be contacted at sudeshna.s@ians.in)
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- No evidence against me: Charles Sobhraj - Jul 14, 2010
- Nepal apex court demolishes Sobhraj's marriage claim - Aug 16, 2010
- Sobhraj's wife to show world who's the Bigg Boss - Sep 29, 2011
- Sobhraj to seek review of murder conviction - Aug 10, 2010
- Nihita eyes Bigg Boss fame, Sobhraj eyes European Parliament - Oct 01, 2011
- UN acquits Sobhraj, asks Nepal for his release, compensation - Aug 05, 2010
- Nepal Supreme Court upholds Sobhraj's conviction - Jul 30, 2010
- Sobhraj verdict on July 14 - Jun 23, 2010
- Sobhraj mother-in-law case triggers debate - Sep 29, 2010
- We're being persecuted: Sobhraj lawyer - Aug 02, 2010
- Sobhraj spends bleak Christmas in Nepal - Dec 25, 2009
- Sobhraj flays court for punishing his girlfriend, lawyer - Oct 02, 2010
- Nepal ignores UN call on Charles Sobhraj - Sep 28, 2009
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