Nepal apex court orders release of serial killer Charles Sobhraj

Citing age factor, the Nepal Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered release of serial killer Charles Sobhraj, who has spent about 19 years in Kathmandu's Central Jail.

Sobhraj was serving a 21-year- jail sentence on charges of using fake passport to enter Nepal and murdering two American backpackers in 1975.

He was arrested in 2003 after being spotted outside a casino in Nepal. The Nepal top court also ordered his deportation within 15 days of release .

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Sobhraj has been held responsible or a series of murders acrosss Asia in the 1970s. He was reportedly arrested in 1976 for multiple killings and theft at Delhi's Ashoka Hotel.

He managed to flee India in 1986 but was finally held again in 1997 in Nepal from where he was extradited back to India.

Born in 1944, Sobhraj has both Indian and Vietnamese parentage. He moved to France at a young age from where began his tryst with crimes.