Rajagopal, owner of Saravana Bhavan, dies
CHENNAI, JULY 19, 2019 00:00 IST
P. Rajagopal
He was sentenced in a murder case
P. Rajagopal, 72, owner of Saravana Bhavan restaurants, who was ailing, died in a city hospital on Thursday morning. Last week, he surrendered in a sessions court to serve the life sentence awarded to him for abduction and murder of an employee in 2001. The court later allowed him to be shifted to a private hospital for treatment.
He is survived by two wives and two sons and leaves behind a legacy in the form of the Saravana Bhavan chain of restaurants.
Rajagopal was named the prime accused in the kidnapping and murder of Prince Santhakumar. According to the prosecution, either upon the advice of an astrologer or having become besotted with Jeevajothi, Santhakumar’s wife, he evinced a keen desire to take her as his third wife, and urged her to split up with her husband.
Faced with resistance from her, Rajagopal made several failed attempts, with the help of others, to break the couple up. On his instructions, hired hands kidnapped Santhakumar, killed him and dumped the body in the forest area of Tiger Chola near Kodaikanal, the prosecution argued. After the trial concluded in a special court at Poonamallee, Rajagopal was awarded a 10-year rigorous imprisonment and a fine in 2004.
CHENNAI, JULY 19, 2019 00:00 IST
P. Rajagopal
He was sentenced in a murder case
P. Rajagopal, 72, owner of Saravana Bhavan restaurants, who was ailing, died in a city hospital on Thursday morning. Last week, he surrendered in a sessions court to serve the life sentence awarded to him for abduction and murder of an employee in 2001. The court later allowed him to be shifted to a private hospital for treatment.
He is survived by two wives and two sons and leaves behind a legacy in the form of the Saravana Bhavan chain of restaurants.
Rajagopal was named the prime accused in the kidnapping and murder of Prince Santhakumar. According to the prosecution, either upon the advice of an astrologer or having become besotted with Jeevajothi, Santhakumar’s wife, he evinced a keen desire to take her as his third wife, and urged her to split up with her husband.
Faced with resistance from her, Rajagopal made several failed attempts, with the help of others, to break the couple up. On his instructions, hired hands kidnapped Santhakumar, killed him and dumped the body in the forest area of Tiger Chola near Kodaikanal, the prosecution argued. After the trial concluded in a special court at Poonamallee, Rajagopal was awarded a 10-year rigorous imprisonment and a fine in 2004.
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