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Inspector Bishwa Lal Shrestha was 32 years old when he tried to arrest Asia's most notorious murder suspect for the killing of two backpackers in Kathmandu. Shrestha examined their corpses, interviewed eyewitnesses, called in handwriting experts, grilled his "restless" suspect, and was soon sure he had the right man. But in December 1975, Nepal was incredibly polite to foreign visitors so Shrestha's superiors told him to respect the do not disturb sign on the door of Charles Sobhraj's room at Kathmandu's smartest hotel. The inspector's men waited in the lobby for two days for Sobhraj...
...Last week, Shrestha, now 59 and retired, finally got his man. After a Nepalese newspaper revealed that Sobhraj had returned to Kathmandu, police arrested him at a hotel casino. But no one on the force could remember the case or where the files were stashed. Then Shrestha stepped forward. He briefed his successors on his long-forgotten investigation, dug up the 28-year-old files and sat in on Sobhraj's interrogation. The police are now preparing a case they hope will, for the first time, convict Sobhraj of murder. Superintendent Kuber Singh Rana hails Shrestha's "compelling" investigation, saying...
...seater sent Shah Dev off to many sites outside Boston. Shah Dev was an avid traveler, visiting New York City and other places on weekends, Beales says. During spring break, he and Shrestha drove all the way to Florida, Pankauz Shrestha says...
...addition to academics, an equally important part of the college experience was "meeting other students, many of whom have remained lifelong friends," Narayan Shrestha says...
...Pankauz Shrestha says Shah Dev's year at Harvard was one of the few times the king could interact with other people on in informal basis. "[It was] one of the few places where he could really be himself," he says...