Sobhraj taking keen interest in Aarushi murder case

Nepalese notorious criminal Charles Sobhraj who is behind the bars and keenly following Arushi murder.

The Aarushi murder case in India, over which two Nepalese are in the custody of the CBI, has grabbed the attention of not only the commoners in the suspects’ homeland, but also the notorious criminal Charles Sobhraj who is closely following it in a jail in Kathmandu.

People in Kathmandu are glued to Indian news channels now a days, keenly watching developments in the Noida double murder case in which 14-year-old Aarushi Talwar, the only child of a doctor couple, and their Nepali servant Hemraj were killed nearly two months ago.

“I do not miss the Indian news channels whenever the news about Aarushi murder case is broadcast,” says Dinesh Shrestha, a Kathmandu shopkeeper.

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Srijana Thapa, a house wife, also said that she never misses the TV news bulletins about the murder case. “I watch the Indian TV news whenever they broadcast the story about Aarushi murder case.” Sobhraj, who is serving life term in the Kathmandu central jail for killing an American tourist in 1975, is also closely following the murder case.

Sobhraj, who is privileged to watch television and read newspapers in the jail, keeps a tab on the developments relating to the case, said a prison staff.

There must be a motive behind the murder, Sobhraj is reported to have told his fellow inmates.

Two Nepalese, Krishna and Raj Kumar, are in the custody of CBI in connection with the double murder case.