What to Know
- Chandran Nathan was convicted in 1994 of murdering a 20-year-old medical student on Long Island
- He faces up to life in prison in that case and isn't eligible for parole until 2030
- Prosecutors allege he was willing to pay a third party $10,000 to kidnap the former prosecutor who put him away
A 59-year-old man who has been jailed for more than two decades after murdering a 20-year-old medical student on Long Island in 1993 has been indicted for allegedly plotting to kidnap and assault the former Nassau County prosecutor who put him away.
Chandran Nathan pleaded not guilty to second-degree criminal solicitation at his arraignment Tuesday and was remanded. His lawyer suggested Nathan needs a psych evaluation; he is due back in court next month in the case.
Nathan, an inmate at Shawangunk Correctional Facility in Ulster County, allegedly planned to have a third party kidnap the former prosecutor in his murder case, put him in handcuffs and assault him. According to prosecutors, Nathan wanted the intended victim to give videotaped statements that a number of confessions he used in his career were coerced and tainted.
Nathan allegedly wanted the prosecutor beaten about the body -- but not around the face -- and to be water boarded if necessary. Prosecutors say he offered to pay a third party up to $10,000 for a successful kidnapping.
Nathan has been jailed upstate since his 1994 conviction on murder and burglary charges in the slaying of a 20-year-old medical student in Manhasset. The student's fiancee jumped to her death from the 16th-floor terrace of her family's Queens building two days after his death.
Nathan, who faces up to life in prison on the murder charges, is not eligible for parole until 2030. He faces an additional three and a half to seven years in prison if convicted of the criminal solicitation charge.
