Food For Charles Sobhraj's Girlfriend: Sonia Gandhi On Her Tihar Visits When Indira Gandhi Was Jailed

On Christmas Day 1978, Sonia Gandhi carried lunch into Delhi's Tihar Jail for her imprisoned mother-in-law, Indira Gandhi. At the former prime minister's request, she also brought enough for the three women guarding her and for a young foreign prisoner in the same compound.

Sonia Gandhi identifies that prisoner as an accomplice of serial killer Charles Sobhraj.The account appears in her memoir, 'Belonging: A Journey of Love', released on November 10. It describes her daily visits to Tihar during the week Indira Gandhi spent there after the combined opposition formation, the Janata Party, came to power in the 1977 elections that followed her imposition of Emergency."At my mother-in-law's request, the food had to be enough also for the three women who took turns guarding her and a young woman prisoner in her compound -- an Australian girl, the accomplice of the dreaded Charles Sob[h]raj, convicted for multiple murders of young tourists in Thailand, Nepal, and India," Sonia Gandhi writes."My mother-in-law felt sorry for her, and when it turned out that she didn't eat ham, we quickly…