![]() ![]() Sobhraj was taken in by his mother's new husband, a French Army lieutenant stationed in French Indochina. His parents were never married and his father denied paternity. ![]() Sobhraj's birthplace being a French colonial territory made him eligible for French citizenship. Hotchand Bhawnani Gurmukh Sobhraj was born on 6 April 1944 in Saigon, within the Indochinese Union, to an Indian father and Vietnamese mother. Sobhraj has been the subject of four biographies, three documentaries, a Bollywood film titled Main Aur Charles, and the 2021 eight-part BBC/ Netflix drama series The Serpent. ĭescribed as "handsome, charming and utterly without scruple", he used his looks and cunning to advance his criminal career and obtain celebrity status he is known to have enjoyed his infamy. On 23 December, he was released and deported to France. On 21 December 2022, the Supreme Court of Nepal ordered his release from prison because of his old age, after he had served 19 years of his prison term. ![]() Sobhraj went to Nepal in 2003, where he was arrested, tried, and given a life sentence. He was convicted and jailed in India from 1976 to 1997. It is thought that Sobhraj murdered at least 20 tourists in South and Southeast Asia, including 14 in Thailand. He was known as the Bikini Killer because of the attire of several of his victims, as well as the Splitting Killer and the Serpent for "his snake-like ability to avoid detection by authorities". Charles Sobhraj (born Hotchand Bhawnani Gurmukh Sobhraj, 6 April 1944) is a serial killer, fraudster, and thief who preyed on Western tourists travelling on the hippie trail of South Asia during the 1970s. ![]()
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