Meanwhile, retired Assistant Commissioner of Mumbai Police Madhukar Zende, who arrested Sobhraj from Goa in , said that though he believed that dreaded criminals like Sobhraj Should not come out of jail for life. But it is important to consider what the criminal justice system has to say. He was arrested in 1976 along with one of his accomplices while trying to poison more than engineering students in a hotel in New Delhi. I went. It was later learned that he had also killed a French tourist. He was sentenced to imprisonment for years in Tihar Jail for various offences. But, in he broke out of a high security prison and came into limelight. He was soon arrested from O’Coquerio restaurant in Goa and then remained in jail till 1997.