Black Warrant: Real-life accounts of Charles Sobhraj's escape from Tihar after he drugged officers with sedative-laced barfi Gupta Sunil

Following his escape, Charles Sobhraj became the target of a nationwide manhunt. After nearly a month, he was discovered in Goa and completed the remaining ten years of his sentence.Serial killer Charles Sobhraj's activities while incarcerated at Tihar jail are also chronicled in Vikramaditya Motwane's Netflix series Black Warrant, which reenacts the events that took place there in the 1980s. Sidhant Gupta plays Charles in the show, while Zahan Kapoor portrays Sunil Kumar Gupta, the jailer. Sunil had already described how Charles had escaped Tihar on a Sunday in March 1986 in a previous interview. According to Sunil's story, the prison guards believed Charles could handle himself and were taken aback when he drugged them and left in luxury.

Sunil stated in an interview with The Lallantop that he would refer to Charles' escape as "cheating with the system" rather than "jailbreak." According to Sunil, after years of cohabitation, they begin to view the inmates as family. "We treat inmates like family when they arrive at the jail. We treat him like family and don't give a damn about what he did outside. You also have a tendency to get a little friendlier with time. When someone has been in business for a long time, you begin to have some faith in them.Then, recalling what had happened that day, Sunil claimed that Charles was feigning to celebrate his birthday on Sunday. "I'm celebrating my birthday," he said. He picked a Sunday for it, in part because we only have a skeleton staff on that day. Some sedatives were brought in by one of his men. Charles placed an order for some barfi and a few sedatives. He then served it to everyone who was on duty or in a position of authority, giving them a Rs 50 bill and some barfi. People like him always found a way, even though currency wasn't permitted inside the jail back then," he claimed.