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| Top Maoist leader's wife to defend Charles Sobhraj in court | |
| 2008-08-11 | |
| KATHMANDU: After a feisty French lawyer, a former Nepali attorney-general, and a legal adviser of Nepali caretaker Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala, the wife of a top Maoist leader will now defend Charles Sobhraj against the charge of murder committed more than three decades ago. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Sobhraj The 64-year-old former rogue,
Devkota has been roped in by Nepali lawyer Shakuntala Thapa, who has special ties with Sobhraj, being the mother of the 20-year-old high school student, Nihita Biswas, who created a sensation last month with the disclosure that she is engaged to Sobhraj, 44 years her senior. Devkota is taking up cudgels on behalf of Sobhraj, who has been imprisoned in Kathmandu's Central Jail since 2003, is bound to be politicised. A section of Nepal's media has been accusing the wily Frenchman of trying to cosy up to the Maoists, who could be heading the new government of Nepal, in a bid to derive extra mileage. His future mother-in-law Thapa is also a Maoist supporter. During his prison stint, Sobhraj claims he helped a Maoist member, once held incommunicado and blindfolded by the army, get medical treatment. He also hailed the Maoist victory in the April election and offered to pay for the education of a young Nepali woman who was thrown out of her home by her father for voting for the Maoists. | |
| Posted by:john frum |
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| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2008-08-11 01:05 |