Hotchand Bhawnani Gurumukh Charles Sobhraj (born 6 April 1944) is a French Indian serial killer, fraudster, and thief, who preyed on Western tourists traveling 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." Now he is in Nepal jail.