Kathmandu, October 5:

Alleged international serial killer Charles Gurumukh Sobhraj is all set to move the Supreme Court challenging the lower courts’ verdicts that convicted him in a 30-year-old murder case.

“We have almost completed preparations to file an appeal in the Supreme Court against the earlier verdicts by the lower courts,” Sobhraj’s lawyer Rajaram Dhakal told this daily today. According to Dhakal, Sobhraj will file the appeal in the SC as soon as the court resumes regular business after the Dashain festival.

Sobhraj’s lawyers are set to challenge the verdicts by the Patan Appellate Court and the Kathmandu District Court that had convicted him for murdering an American, Connie Jo Bronzich, in 1975 and slapped 20-year jail term on him.

“We will challenge the Patan Appellate Court’s verdict that had upheld the Kathmandu District Court’s verdict that convicted our client without any solid evidence,” Dhakal said. According to him, they will raise questions over the validity of the conviction based on circumstantial evidences provided by Interpol and some embassies.

“We will also raise questions over the verdicts which were based on circumstantial evidences, as they have no solid evidence proving Sobhraj’s entry in Nepal in 1975,” he added.

Another case in which Sobhraj has been accused of murdering a Canadian, Laurent Armond Carriere, is still pending. Carriere was murdered in Sanga of Bhaktapur in 1975. The government authorities have not yet decided whether to prosecute Sobhraj in the case as the authorities had not made him a defendant in a case filed 30 years ago.