Monday, August 01, 2005


Sobhraj filed petition

Kathmandu, August 1- Charles Sobhraj Gurumukh, who is known as international serial killer today filed an application in the Patan Appellate Court requesting the court to allocate at least two days for hearing his case. He pleaded that as the one-day time the court had been allocating in the past hearings was insufficient for his lawyers to present their arguments.
The court has heard the case for four times in the past and has not been able to deliver its verdict. The case is scheduled for hearing on Thursday for the fifth time.
Sobhraj has appealed to the PAC against the one-year-old Kathmandu District Court verdict that slapped him life (20 years) term for on the charge of killing American national Connie Jo Bronzich in 1975.
Sobhraj also forwarded his petition to the UN Human Rights Commission, Office of High Commissioner of Human Rights, Office of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Nepal and the Ministry of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs to draw their attention.


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