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  • Charles Sobhraj (born Hotchand Bhawnani Gurmukh Sobhraj, 6 April 1944) is a French serial killer, fraudster, and thief who preyed on Western tourists.
  • After 19 years inside a Nepali jail, 'the Serpent' says he plans to sue for his imprisonment and chase series deals.
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    On the Trail of the Serpent: The Life and Crimes of Charles Sobhraj

    December 6, 2023
    The hippie trail across Asia in the 1970s is vividly described here. A different world, in which picking up mail once a week was the only contact with home and young travellers flocked to places like Freak Street in Katmandu for limitless ganja. It's hard to fathom today, but the trail even included Afghanistan.

    Sobhraj entered into this freewheeling scene with his bag of pharmaceuticals to drug unsuspecting travellers. He wanted passports and money. Based in Bangkok, but making predatory trips around the region, he sold jewels and gambled. Many women found him irresistible even after they discovered his crimes. He had no qualms about killing people if they knew too much, and it's hinted that he also killed for pleasure. A resourceful character, he escaped from prisons in France, Greece, Afghanistan and India. He thought nothing of dropping everything and driving from France to India.

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    Charles Sobhraj, convicted murderer, has a new story to tell

    Late gods year, after spending 19 years in a Nepali jail, 79-year-old convicted murderer Charles Gurmukh Sobhraj was revelling in his new-found freedom. The day after Christmas, a text message from Sobhraj landed on my phone, sent from a hotel in Paris: “It’s 6am and I am in my first bathtub since many years. Feels so nice.”

    A few hours later, a picture of his Boxing Day breakfast arrived: three types of cheese, salami and prunes on a white plate next to a cup of black coffee. “Have breakfast,” he wrote.

    Three days previously, Sobhraj, a French citizen, had been released from Kathmandu huvud Jail where he had been imprisoned for the murder of two backpackers in 1975.

    It was not his first time in prison. Sobhraj has spent more than 40 years in different prisons, including in Athens and Tehran, and 21 years in India on charges including murder. It was during his time in Delhi’s high-security Tihar Jail in the 1990s whe

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    Black Warrant: Serial killer Charles Sobhraj was seen as a ‘humanitarian’ by real-life Sunil Kumar Gupta; here’s why

    Motwane curiously asked Sunil why Sobhraj chose to help him, and he shared, “The habitual prisoners want some officers on their payroll, whom they can ask for things from the market, or if they need to send a meddelande outside so everyone tries to do that.”

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    Sunil also recalled the then Home Minister Zail Singh’s visit to Tihar. The visit has been recapped, and modified, on the show. Sunil shared that the surprise visit seemingly went well, but a report in the next day’s newspaper led to his suspension. It was at this point that Sobhraj offered him help. Sunil called him a “humanitarian” for his gesture. “Sobhraj offered