Charles Sobhraj Biography, Age, Wikipedia, Daughter, Parents, Mother, Family, Children

Charles Sobhraj is a French serial killer, fraudster, and thief. He is known to have preyed on the hippie trail of South Asia during the 1970s. He is also referred to as ‘The Bikini Killer,’ ‘The Splitting Killer,’ and ‘The Serpent.’

Charles Sobhraj Biography

Charles Gurumukh Sobhraj Hotchand Bhawnani (born 6 April 1944) is a French serial killer, fraudster, and thief, who preyed on Western tourists travelling on the hippie trail of South Asia during the 1970s. He was known as “the Bikini Killer” due to the attire of several of his victims, as well as “the Splitting Killer” and “the Serpent”, due to “his snake-like ability to avoid detection by authorities”.

It is thought that Sobhraj murdered at least 20 tourists in South and Southeast Asia, including 14 in Thailand. He was convicted and jailed in India from 1976 to 1997. After his release, he retired, promoting[clarification needed] his infamy in Paris. Sobhraj returned to Nepal in 2003, where he was arrested, tried, and given a life sentence. 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. On 23 December, he was released and deported to France.

Described as “handsome, charming and utterly without scruple”, he used his looks and cunning to advance his criminal career and obtain celebrity status. He also enjoyed his infamy. Sobhraj has been the subject of four biographies, three documentaries, an Indian film titled Main Aur Charles, and the 2021 eight-part BBC/Netflix drama series The Serpent.

Charles Sobhraj Parents, Early Life

Sobhraj was born in Saigon to an Indian father and Vietnamese mother. His parents were never married and his father denied paternity. Stateless at first, Sobhraj was taken in by his mother’s new husband, a French Army lieutenant stationed in French Indochina. There he felt neglected in favour of the couple’s later children. Sobhraj continued to move back and forth between Southeast Asia and France with the family.

As a teenager, he began to commit petty crimes; he received his first custodial sentence for burglary in 1963, serving his sentence at Poissy prison near Paris. While imprisoned, Sobhraj manipulated prison officials into granting him special favours, such as being allowed to keep books in his cell. Around the same time, he met and endeared himself to Felix d’Escogne, a wealthy young man and prison volunteer.

Charles Sobhraj Height

Charles Sobhraj stands 172 cm tall. He is of Sindhi and Vietnamese descent.

Charles Sobhraj Wife

In 2010, Charles Sobhraj married his Indian-Nepali interpreter, Nihita Biswas, in prison. The daughter of his lawyer, she was 20 years old and 44 years his junior. One of the prison staff told Paris Match in 2021: “It’s a legend; there is no proof of their union”. She told the media that his gaze and his eyes were mesmerizing and that his French charm had done everything. In 2017, she donated blood to save him during an open heart operation.

Charles Sobhraj Children

When he was a teenager, he met Chantal Desnoyers in Paris. In 1964, Chantal Desnoyers and Charles became parents to their first child, a boy named Pranck. In 1969, he met Chantal Compagnon, a young Parisian woman with a conservative background. He broke up with Desnoyers to marry Compagnon. Charles proposed Compagnon to marriage but was arrested on the same day. Upon his release from prison after eight months, he got married to Compagnon.

On the eve of his marriage to Compagnon, Desnoyers gave birth to their second child, a girl named Muriel Anouk.

In 1970, Sobhraj left France with his pregnant wife, Compagnon. The couple went to Bombay, where Compagnon gave birth to their daughter, Usha Sobhraj. Compagnon was his companion in crime, but when she did not want to continue the life of crime with Charles, she left Charles and returned to France and vowed to never return to him. In Kashmir, India, he met Marie-Andrée Leclerc who was looking for adventure. Charles had come to scam Marie, but she soon became one of her biggest accomplices in his crimes. Reportedly, he was dating Marie until the late 1970s.

When he was imprisoned in Delhi, he was flirting with Sneh Sengar, a lawyer who was fighting Sobhraj’s case. At the same time, he was flirting with dozens of women, including a Madrasi woman whom Sobhraj had sent a marriage proposal. He was engaged to two women; Jacqueline Kuster, a German imprisoned on drug charges; a Punjabi woman who fell in love with him after reading the book by Neville and Clarke.

In 2008, he announced that he was engaged to Nihita Biswas, daughter of the lawyer of Charles. Nihita and Charles met when Nihita came to help Charles and her mother as a translator. On October 9, 2008, during Bada Dashami, it was claimed that Charles married Nihita in jail. The next day, the claims were dismissed by the Nepalese jail authorities, stating that Nihita and Charles performed a tika ceremony as a part of Bada Dashami.

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