New Delhi: ‘Bikini Killer’ Charles Sobhraj, who is currently lodged in a Nepal jail, has claimed that the Nepali authorities have forged evidence against him in many of the cases.
In an audio diary made available exclusively to CNN-IBN, Sobhraj blames the courts for being under the media's influence. He made the claims days after the Nepali Supreme Court had refused to acquit him on December 19.
Sobhraj says two of the Nepali Supreme Court judges don't want to acquit him because of fear that they may face criticism by a section of the Nepalese media, which have been after him for the past four years.
He also says he is shocked that on the excuse of reopening the so-called passport case, they have reopened the Denouvu case. Sobhraj compiled the audio diary secretly in the jail.
Claiming that evidence against him in many cases were forged, Sobhraj says: “In the passport case, two photocopies are the only documents they have got to back their claim that I came to Nepal at that time. Nobody came to the court to prove that those documents are original.”
Sobhraj claims a prominent French legal handwriting expert has already opined that these documents are a forgery and it was done through a plastic sheet and has no legal value whatsoever. “They made it into a case of no witnesses, why? Five-star hotels like Soltee and Molla have a lot of staff members, which means there were no dearth of eye-witnesses (if it were a case),” Sobhraj points out.
Suspected of involvement in 12 murder cases across Asia, Sobhraj's tryst with the Nepalese law began at the Manohara Bridge near Koteshwar in Kathmandu 32 years ago.
Sobhraj had allegedly killed American back-packer Connie Bronwich in 1975. But he fled Nepal soon after.
After several run-ins with the law in scores of other countries, Sobhraj returned to Nepal in 2003, only to be arrested and convicted for the Bronwich murder. Unfazed, Sobhraj appealed in the Supreme Court.
However, in his secret diary, Sobhraj has blamed the courts for being under the media's influence. He claims the courts won't have any witness to convict him.
“In the Supreme Court, I submitted the document in which I clearly stated that the lower court was under the influence of the Nepali media and functioned with no application of Nepali or international law,” says Sobhraj.
He further says that he had requested the SC that in his case, they apply the Nepali law. “But now, it seems that again, like the district court, they don't want to apply the law in my case. Why?” he asks.
Sobhraj, also unpopularly known as the bikini killer, answers his own queries and says that if the courts apply the law, then they will have to acquit him. However, he also claimed that the two judges are passing the buck to other judges and that he is confident that they will have no witnesses to convict him.
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