His release from the central prison on Thursday was delayed by a day as the Department of Immigration, where Sobhraj was to be sent for deportation, did not have a separate room ready for him.
A 72-year-old Nepali man on Sunday entered the Guinness book of World Records as the shortest adult ever, standing at 54.6 centimetres, just the size of a toddler.
The long and short of this meeting was to mark Guinness World Records Day. The world's tallest and shortest men shook hands for the first time on Thursday.
'The vocal pacifists who monopolise the media in India need to answer a simple question: Would they have the Taliban or ISIS take over Kashmir or the rest of the country or let the army do its duty so that we are safe in our beds and free to demonise the soldiers in our cozy drawing rooms and television studios,' asks Colonel Anil A Athale (retd).
Shot in 2014, these images from across the globe will tell that it is a crazy world out there!
Jyoti Amge explains while Sadiya Upade listens in.
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