The court also asked the concerned authority to arrange for Sobhraj to return to his country within 15 days. Released from India in 1997, Sobhraj went back to France but was spotted in Nepal in 2003 when he began his prolonged jail sentence that ended on Friday.Ī joint bench of Justices Sapana Pradhan Malla and Tilak Prasad Shrestha ordered that he be freed on grounds of his age and health. During this time, his Thai arrest warrant expired. He served another decade at Tihar from 1986 onwards. Many believe Sobhraj escaped Tihar to evade his extradition to Thailand where he awaited a death sentence on the charges of drugging and killing six women on a beach in Pattaya. ![]() “Whenever he was supposed to meet any female guest, be it a lawyer or anybody else, he used to make extra effort to dress up properly, apply perfume and look handsome," Gupta told PTI. Thirty-six years down the line, O'Coqueiro, the restaurant where he was caught, still continues to serve people and is famous as the place where Sobhraj was arrested.įormer Tihar Jail law officer Sunil Gupta remembers Sobhraj as someone who would make special efforts to dress up when he had to meet women advocates but rather casual in his attire when he had a meeting with their male counterparts. They issued an Interpol notice and that, says. After that, the Thai authorities took notice. ![]() He was soon caught in a restaurant in Goa and was returned to the jail where he was lodged till 1997. Within days, the Bangkok Post printed an explosive front-page story headlined: Web of Death. He executed the great escape by drugging security guards, whom he had served sweets on the pretext of celebrating his birthday. However, more than his series of criminal activities, it was his dramatic jailbreak at the highly-guarded Tihar jail in 1986 that hogged headlines across the world - and the cult of the notorious murderer continued to grow. He was sentenced to 12 years' imprisonment in Tihar prison for various crimes. During the police investigation, it was found that he had also killed a French tourist. This was when Sobhraj and his accomplice were arrested for trying to poison over 30 engineering students in a hotel lobby in New Delhi, India. In July 1976, his crimes finally began to catch up with him. Sobhraj is known to use his good looks to his advantage and mastered the distinctive art of 'befriend-rob-kill' - his favoured pattern to attack his targets. What followed were a spree of murders and frequent run-ins with law enforcement agencies of several countries, including Greece, France, India, Thailand, Nepal and Malaysia.īefore turning to murder, preying on Western tourists on the 1970s hippie trail and triggering an international manhunt that put him at the top of Iinterpol's most wanted list, Sobhraj was a consummate con artist who would smuggle drugs and guns across Asia and rob wealthy associates. Within eight months of his release from prison, the two got married," it reads. You may read full biography about Charles Sobhraj from Wikipedia."On the day they were supposed to get married, Charles was arrested. In 2017, his lawyers petitioned a court in Kathmandu that Sobhraj should be released as per the new Nepal Jail Manual guidelines that guarantee an automatic release of convicts over 72 years of age. That means Sobhraj can be officially released in 2027, at 82 years of age. ![]() Thailand, Nepal, India, Malaysia, France, Afghanistan, Turkey, Greece He was first convicted and jailed in India from 1976 to 1997, for the murder of Frenchman Jean-Luc Solomon during a robbery in Bombay. Today, Charles Sobhraj, 76, is serving out a life sentence in Kathmandu prison, Nepal. Remarkably, given her dark past, she is also a long-serving reserve officer with the. Indian-born Usha Sutliff, 50, now has a ‘classified’ job with the US government, specializing in counter terrorism and homeland security. Sobhraj is reportedly now 77 years old and remains in prison.
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