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Saravana Bhavan founder dies days after surrender

CHENNAI:Restaurant chain Saravana Bhavan founder P Rajagopal died at a private hospital here today days after he surrendered to serve a life sentence for killing an employee in 2001 to marry his wife
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Employees pay tribute to P Rajagopal, founder of Hotel Saravana Bhavan chain of hotels, in Chennai on Thursday. PTI
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Chennai, July 18

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Restaurant chain Saravana Bhavan founder P Rajagopal died at a private hospital here today, days after he surrendered to serve a life sentence for killing an employee in 2001 to marry his wife.

Rajagopal, 73, died around 10 am of “septic shock” at Vijaya Health Centre, sources at the hospital said, refusing to give further details.

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He was shifted to the private facility on Tuesday from the state-run Stanley Medical College Hospital following a HC order after his son filed an appeal, saying his father’s condition was deteriorating. Rajagopal had surrendered on July 9 to serve the life term after the SC rejected his plea seeking more time on grounds of ill-health.

Soon after he was arrested, he got admitted to the “convict ward” of the state-run hospital here. Upholding the life sentence given to Rajagopal for murdering Prince Shantakumar, the SC had ordered him to surrender. Either on the “advice of an astrologer” or “having become besotted with” the wife of his employee Santhakumar, Rajagopal initially attempted to make her his third wife and after failing in his endeavour, plotted abduction and murder of her husband, the SC had noted. — PTI

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Life term for murder

  • A court awarded 10-year jail to Rajagopal for plotting abduction and murder of Santhakumar in 2001 to marry his wife
  • In 2009, HC enhanced to life term trial court’s verdict. He moved SC, which rejected his plea and ordered him to surrender
  • Rajagopal surrendered on July 9 to serve the life term after the SC rejected his plea seeking more time on grounds of ill-health
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