P Rajagopal, the founder of Saravana Bhavan chain of restaurants, died in a Chennai hospital on Thursday, a week after he surrendred to serve life imprisonment in connection with a 2001 murder case.

Saravana Bhavan founder P Rajagopal, serving life sentence, dies in Chennai

72-year-old P Rajagopal, the founder of the popular South Indian Hotel Chain Saravana Bhavan, breathed his last in Chennai at the Vijaya Hospital, where he had been admitted three days ago.

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