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Charles Sobhraj, who spent 19 years in Nepal jail for the murder of two tourists in Kathmandu in 1975 is being released with the court orders.
He has been ordered to return to France within 15 days.
Sobhraj was linked to a string of other tourist murders in the 1970s and spent 20 years in prison in India.
His victims were mostly young Western backpackers on the hippie trail in India and Thailand.
The notorious killer had been serving two life sentences, each 20 years, in Nepal’s capital for the murder of an American woman, Connie Jo Bronzich, and her Canadian backpacker friend, Laurent Carriere.
He was convicted in two separate trials – most recently in 2014, when he was sentenced to 20 years in a high-security prison for murdering Carriere.
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