Kathmandu - The Nepalese Supreme Court is to pronounce its final verdict on alleged international serial killer Charles Sobhraj on Friday.
The hearing previously slated for July 14 had been postponed by the judges, saying they needed more time to study the documents.
"We are working on a complete text and need more time," Justice Ram Kumar P Shah told the court.
French national Charles Gurumukh Sobhraj has been in detention for past seven years on charges of murdering two foreign nationals in Kathmandu in 1975.
He is appealing his 2004 conviction of the murder of US citizen Connie Jo Bronzich in December 1975. Another case is pending in Bhaktapur district court, where Sobharj is charged with killing a Canadian traveller, also in 1975.
66-year-old Sobhraj maintains he first visited Kathmandu in 2003 for
business purposes.
He is also linked to the "bikini killer" murders of of six
women in the Thai beach resort town of Pattaya in the 1970s. He is also charged with passport forgery and committing a total of 20 murders across Asia.
He has also served 21 years in an Indian prison for homicide.
Sobhraj married a 21-year-old Nepali woman, the daughter of his lawyer, in 2008.
