IN 1985, a woman living in Hyderabad dreamt of marrying Charles Gurmukh Sobhraj while the French criminal was in prison in India. Unknown to her, a short distance from her house was a budding journalist who would send her love interest to prison in Nepal 18 years later.
The “bikini killer” is now a free man in France, after the Supreme Court of Nepal ordered his release considering his age (78) after a 19year incarceration. But, there is no trace of Vaishali Reddy, who once exchanged a string of love letters with Sobhraj. In the early 1980s, Vaishali was a lecturer in Nizamabad, now in north-western Telangana. She taught botany at Narayan Reddy Women’s college and was well-liked on campus, according to former students and members of the management.
This story is from the January 08, 2023 edition of THE WEEK India.
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