KATHMANDU, Nov 23: French serial killer Charles Sobhraj nicknamed ‘the serpent’ and ‘the bikini killer’, whose string of murders across Asia in the 1970s was portrayed in the Netflix series "The Serpent", has been released from the central jail, Kathmandu.

The Supreme Court in Kathmandu ruled Wednesday that Sobhraj, 78, who has been in jail in Nepal since 2003 for two killings decades earlier, should be immediately released and deported within 15 days.

“He is currently being sent to the Department of Immigration at Dillibazar and will be deported to France from there today itself,” said a government official. 

Earlier, the District Court, Bhaktapur, had slapped him with a life sentence for the murder of American citizen Connie Jo Bronzich and Canadian citizen Laurent Carriere in December 1975. Sobhraj filed a writ petition at the Supreme Court on December 22 last year, demanding that the government ‘provide relief to senior citizens’. He claimed in the writ petition that he had already served 17 of the 20 years of his sentence and had already been recommended for release for behaving well.

 
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