The Times of India, July 6, 2008
Charles Sobhraj, the celebrity criminal serving life term in Nepal, has not only found a new sweetheart in 20-year-old Nihita Biswas, but a devoted spokesperson who is convinced that the media has projected her lover ‘in a bad light’.
The love affair of the criminal mastermind and his "engagement" to the Nepali beauty has grabbed media attention in the Indian subcontinent.
The college girl turned celebrity, Nihita describes Sobhraj a caring man. She who met the international fugitive in Kathmandus central jail while he was looking for an interpreter, said she had been attracted to him because of his humbleness. "Media always puts Sobhraj in a bad light," the confident young woman said.
"Of course, I believe that he is innocent," she says, alleging that the police has tried to involve him in three decade-old murder case by producing false documents. Nicknamed the 'Bikini killer' and 'Serpent', Sobhraj has been accused of luring young women and killing many of them. He has been sentenced to life imprisonment by a District Court in July 2004 on charges of murdering an American and a Canadian tourist in Kathmandu in 1975.
"I don't want to talk to media now as I have been misquoted by many newspapers," she told journalists, a day after appearing on a number of national and international television channels.
After learning that their marriage to Sobhraj could land both of them into jail, the young heartthrob is planning to wed Sobhraj secretly.
"I will wait till he is released from jail," says Nihita, adding "In France there will be no legal barrier on our marriage."
Nihita said in love "there is no age-bar". "Sobhraj was my right choice, but the media has done some damage through negative publicity," she alleged.
However, analysts here think there could be ulterior motives to their love affair.
"Either Sobhraj influenced her so that he could get public sympathy in his favour or she wanted to get over night publicity by establishing links with him," a senior journalist said on condition of anonymity. Sobhraj, who claims he was put in jail without any evidence, is awaiting a final hearing on his appeal in the Supreme Court.
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