Kathmandu, Dec 23 : As per the decision of the Supreme Court, the government on Friday deported French national- a bikini killer Charles Sobhraj. He is prohibited to visit Nepal for ten years. Officiating Director General at Department of Immigration, Pradarshani Kumari, informed that Sobhraj was sent to his country- France via Qatar Airways.
A police vehicle believed to carry French serial killer Charles Sobraj is pictured while exiting from the immigration office and heading towards Tribhuvan international airport in Kathmandu on December 23, 2022. – French serial killer Charles Sobhraj, responsible for multiple murders of young foreigners in the 1970s across Asia, was freed from a Nepali jail on December 23, an AFP reporter said. Sobhraj, 78, whose life was chronicled in the successful series “The Serpent”, was to be transferred to immigration detention ahead of his scheduled deportation to France, police said. (Photo by PRAKASH MATHEMA / AFP)
He was released from jail on Friday itself. Information officer at Department of Prison, Ramchandra Shivakoti, said Sobhraj was freed from jail in the morning and handed over to the Department of Immigration. All necessary arrangements for his deportation were made by the Immigration after the court order.
A police vehicle believed to carry French serial killer Charles Sobraj is pictured entering the immigration office from centre Jail in Kathmandu on December 23, 2022. – French serial killer Charles Sobhraj, responsible for multiple murders of young foreigners in the 1970s across Asia, was freed from a Nepali jail on December 23, an AFP reporter said. Sobhraj, 78, whose life was chronicled in the successful series “The Serpent”, was to be transferred to immigration detention ahead of his scheduled deportation to France, police said. (Photo by PRAKASH MATHEMA / AFP)
The Supreme Court had ordered the government to deport Sobhraj within 15 days. He was handed down life imprisonment 19 years back in a crime of killing two foreigners and bearing a fake passport. —– (RSS)
French serial killer Charles Sobhraj sits in an aircraft departing from Kathmandu to France, on December 23, 2022. – French serial killer Charles Sobhraj, responsible for multiple murders in the 1970s across Asia, was freed on December 23 after spending almost 20 years in a Nepali prison. (Photo by Atish PATEL / AFP)
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