Bikini Killer

The Great Escape: How ‘Bikini Killer’ Charles Sobhraj broke out of Tihar Jail and launched one of the greatest manhunts

On 16 March 1986, Charles Sobhraj, known as the ‘Bikini Killer’, did the unthinkable; he broke out of India’s most guarded jails — Tihar Prison, leading to one of the greatest manhunts. A month later, Mumbai cop Madhukar Zende arrested him after saying the famous line: ‘Hello Charles. How are you?'

Why 'Bikini Killer' Charles Sobhraj is being released from Nepal prison after 19 years

Nepal's Supreme Court has ordered the release of French serial killer Charles Sobhraj from prison owing to his health and age. The French citizen with Vietnamese and Indian parentage committed a string of murders throughout Asia in the 1970s

Nepal's Supreme Court orders release of serial killer Charles Sobhraj on 'health grounds'

Sobhraj murdered at least 20 tourists across South Asia in the 1970s. He has been in jail in Nepal since 2003 for murdering two North American tourists

'Serial killer' Charles Sobhraj undergoes heart surgery in Kathmandu

Notorious serial killer Charles Sobhraj, a Frenchman of Indian and Vietnamese parentage who has been in Nepal's jail for years, on Monday underwent a five-hour open heart surgery and is yet to regain conciousness, a media report said.

'Bikini killer' Charles Sobhraj convicted for second murder in Nepal

Sobhraj, a French citizen of Vietnamese and Indian parentage -- nicknamed the "bikini killer" -- is already serving a life sentence in Nepal for the murder of US tourist Connie Joe Bronzich on Kathmandu's outskirts in 1975.