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Trending News: Charles Sobhraj: behind whom the police of many countries had stepped into the world of crime


Charles Shobhraj: The infamous, vicious and ruthless Charles Sobhraj, who surprised big criminals with his way of committing crimes and escaped many times by dodging the jail authorities, was released from jail in Nepal on Friday after years. With this, a new chapter in the life of this vicious and notorious criminal has started from today.

78-year-old Charles Sobhraj, a French citizen of Indo-Vietnamese origin, is currently suffering from illness, but there was a time when he said that “I can escape from jail on my own free will.” I can rob at will. I can live as I want.” Law enforcement agencies of many countries were trying their best to catch him.

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Charles Sobhraj’s life has been very interesting

Sobhraj’s life has been the subject of interest for many books, films and TV shows and after many years he is once again in the limelight. Many of his victims were found wearing bikinis at the time of their murders, hence he was nicknamed the ‘Bikini Killer’ and the ‘Snake’ because of his many successful escapes from prison, but how did he become such a vicious and ruthless criminal? It has become, this is also a matter to know.

Due to this reason became vicious and ruthless criminal

According to reports published in several newspapers, Sobhraj was born in Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam). His father abandoned his family when he was a child, and he was adopted by his mother’s lover, a French lieutenant. Shobhraj, who faced the indifference of his parents because of his half-siblings, started committing petty crimes since childhood and grew up to become such a vicious and killer that the whole world knew him.

Sobhraj was serving sentence in Kathmandu jail

It is suspected that he killed around 20 Western travelers in Asia in the 1970s and 1980s. Sobhraj was serving a life sentence in a Kathmandu jail since 2003 in connection with the murder of American woman Connie Jo Bronjic in Nepal in 1975. Along with this, he was convicted of the murder of Canadian tourist Laurent Carrier in 2014 and sentenced to a second life sentence. Life sentence in Nepal means imprisonment for 20 years.

Married a woman 44 years younger in jail

It is said that Sobhraj was particularly adept at wooing women with his charming personality. He was initially imprisoned in Paris for crimes such as theft and robbery in the 1960s, during which time he married C. Compagnone, a young and wealthy Parsi girl. Many years later, in 2008, he married Nihita Biswas, a woman 44 years younger than him and the daughter of his Nepali lawyer, in Nepal’s jail.

Agencies of many countries were looking for him

At one time Sobhraj was followed by law enforcement agencies of many countries including Greece, France, India, Thailand, Nepal and Malaysia. He was on Interpol’s most wanted list for the murder of several Western tourists in the 1970s. Earlier he was involved in arms smuggling. He was arrested in 1976 along with one of his accomplices while trying to poison more than 30 engineering students in a hotel in New Delhi. It was later learned that he had also killed a French tourist.

He was sentenced to 12 years imprisonment in Delhi’s Tihar Jail for various crimes, but in 1986 he escaped by breaking the tight security of Tihar Jail and came into limelight. He was soon arrested from O’Coquerio restaurant in Goa and then remained in jail till 1997.

had escaped from Tihar Jail

Many believe that Sobhraj escaped from Tihar Jail to avoid being extradited to Thailand, where he was sentenced to death for drugging and murdering six women on a beach in Pattaya. While in Tihar Jail, his arrest warrant in Thailand had expired. Shobhraj, who was in jail in Nepal for the last several years, was released and sent to France on Friday.

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