Charles Sobharaj, whose full name is Charles Gurumukh Sobharaj Hotchand Bhavnani, was born in 1944 in Saigon, Vietnam to an Indian father and a Vietnamese mother. Having some family problems in his youth, he chose his future by engaging in petty theft and other crimes as a teenager. History has it that Shobharaj, handsome in appearance, was later given the status of a 'high class celebrity'.

Sobharaj was jailed for the first time in 1963 for theft. As a continuation of this, he later led a prosperous life in crime. Unofficial estimates put the death toll in Sobharaj's serial killing spree, which began in 1975 with the murder of Teresa Knowlton, at around thirty. Because of the murders that took place at a time when mobile phones and the Internet were not active, the investigation of many of them stopped halfway without evidence.

It is clear from the investigation that Sobharaj committed the murder by searching for tourists from South East Asia. Since most of the victims were wearing 'bikinis', he was later called 'The Bikini Killer'. Even Interpol cooperated in the investigation, which started from the similarity that passports and foreign currency were stolen from the victims.

Finally, the investigative team that examined the pattern of the twelve murders that occurred several times along the coast of Pattaya, Thailand, realized one thing, the culprit was the same. So after a long investigation, the highly intelligent man who lived a luxurious life and traveled through many airports using the passports of the killers.

The investigation leads to an extremely intelligent and extremely brutal criminal who lived a life of luxury. Sobharaj was arrested by the Delhi Police.
Sobharaj, who served his sentence in Tihar Jail since 1976, built his own empire in Jail as well. Former employees still remember Sobharaj, who led a comfortable life inside the prison with the guise of an underworld hero. In 1986, he escaped jail by giving drugs to his fellow inmates, but he was caught soon aftdays.

Later in 1997, after his release from prison, he was deported to France (Shobharaj is a French citizen).
Meanwhile, Charles Sobharaj gained huge fame by giving interviews to many media. After entering Nepal, Sobharaj was arrested by the police in 2003 on the basis of old murder cases. Sobharaj, who was sentenced to life imprisonment, was finally ordered to be released from prison on December 21, 2022, considering his age. The order also said that 78-year-old Sobharaj should be deported within 15 days