Kathmandu, March 27 -- Among a list of 13 elderly prisoners that Nepal's jail administration has moved forward is one name that has taken everyone by surprise: Charles Shobraj. It looks like Nepal's COVID-19 lockdown will see Shobraj freed from lockup after 16 years in jail in Nepal.
If it goes through, the 75-year-old French-Indian-Vietnamese serial killer accused of leaving a trail of at least 12 murders across Asia in the 1970s, and imprisoned at least three times, will be released from Kathmandu's Central Jail.
On 20 March Nepal's Supreme Court responded positively to a move by Attorney General Agni Kharel and sent the file to the Home Ministry to release 13 elderly prisoners. Central Jail's Laxmi Baskota confirmed that Shobraj's name...