Iqlaque Fakir Mohammed Shaikh from New Mangalwar Peth, Pune, India was sentenced to life imprisonment for committing the murder of Gudrun Corvinus.
She was a member of the Afar expedition in Ethiopia which discovered the famous skeleton Lucy.
While working in the Namib desert, she discovered animal fossils from the Miocene period.
Corvinus moved to Nepal in 1984 and explored the region, specifically the Dang Deokhuri District, Dun valley, and Siwalik Hills.
After finding her severed head, Bund Garden police on 7 January 2006 found Iqlaque Fakir Mohammed Shaikh and arrested him within 7 hours.