Charles Sobhraj will likely be freed tomorrow. (File)
New Delhi:
Charles Sobhraj, the French serial killer, will be released on health grounds, the Nepal Supreme Court ordered today. The Indian-origin killer was responsible for a string of murders across Asia in the 1970s.
Here are 5 facts about Charles Sobhraj:
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The 78-year-old has been in Kathmandu’s Central Jail since 2003. He was arrested for murdering two North-American tourists. Charles Sobhraj will likely be freed tomorrow.
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Sobhraj is believed to have killed 15 to 20 people in the 1970s.
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His modus operandi was to charm and befriend his victims — many of them starry-eyed Western backpackers on a quest for spirituality — before drugging, robbing, and murdering them. Two of his victims were found wearing only bikinis.
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He was nicknamed “the Bikini Killer” and also earned the sobriquet “The Serpent” for his ability to assume other identities in order to evade justice.
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Charles Sobhraj spent 21 years in jail in India with a brief 22-day break in 1986 when he escaped high-security Tihar Jail after drugging security guards, whom he had served sweets on the pretext of celebrating his birthday.
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