Saravana Bhawan founder P Rajagopal, who was sentenced to life in a murder case, died in a private hospital in Chennai today after a heart attack. Madras High Court had permitted Rajagopal to shift to a private hospital for heart treatment from a government hospital after his surrendered to serve life sentence in the murder case.The founder of popular South Indian food chain Saravana Bhavan had surrendered along with another accused to serve life term after the Supreme Court rejected his plea seeking more time on grounds of ill-health. In 2004, he was found guilty and sentenced to 10 years.
While upholding the life sentence awarded to Rajagopal for murdering an employee in October 2001 to marry his wife, the Supreme Court had ordered him to surrender in the trial court on July 7.