Nihita Biswas is a Nepali model, actress, and television personality born around 1990 in Kathmandu, Nepal, of Indian Bengali descent (her family has roots in the Indian state of West Bengal). She studied at a college in Kathmandu and had a career in modelling and acting in Nepal before coming to international attention. Her global profile was shaped entirely by her relationship with Charles Sobhraj — the French serial killer of Sindhi and Vietnamese origin, known as 'The Serpent' and 'The Bikini Killer' — who committed at least 12 confirmed murders of Western tourists across South and Southeast Asia in the 1970s and was serving a life sentence in Nepal's Central Jail from 2004. Nihita met Sobhraj through her mother, who served as his interpreter and legal aide. Despite the 45-year age difference and his ongoing imprisonment, she married him in a civil ceremony at the jail on 6 October 2008, generating extraordinary global media coverage and debate. The marriage — and Nihita's steadfast insistence that she believed in his innocence — made her one of the most discussed women in Nepal at the time. In October 2011, she entered Bigg Boss 5 on Colors TV as its youngest contestant and the first-ever Nepali participant, an entry that attracted widespread curiosity and controversy. She was the first contestant to be eliminated from the season — evicted in Week 1 (Day 6) — finishing eighteenth and last. Charles Sobhraj was eventually released from Nepal's Central Jail by the Supreme Court of Nepal on 21 December 2022 due to his advanced age and was deported to France.

Being the wife of the notorious French serial killer Charles Sobhraj (known as 'The Serpent' and 'The Bikini Killer'), whom she married in 2008 while he was serving a life sentence in Kathmandu's Central Jail; the intense international media coverage surrounding their relationship and marriage; being the first Nepali contestant ever on Bigg Boss; finishing eighteenth (first eliminated) in Bigg Boss 5 (Colors TV, 2011–12).

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