Case pertains to murder of his employee 18 years ago.
Nearly 18 years after Saravana Bhavan hotel staffer Prince Santhakumar was kidnapped and murdered, the owner of the chain of hotels P. Rajagopal, the main offender in the case, surrendered in a city court on Tuesday. He was brought in an ambulance as he was not keeping well.
Rajagopal, now 73, was cited as accused number 1 in the kidnap and murder of Santhakumar, who was his employee, in 2001.
When the trial court gave a lower punishment to the convicts in 2004, the State preferred an appeal before the Madras High Court. In 2009, the Madras High Court sentenced him and five others to life imprisonment. Three others were sentenced to three years’ imprisonment and two more to two years’ imprisonment.
In March, the Supreme Court confirmed the order of the Madras High Court and gave time till July 7 to the convicts for surrendering to serve prison terms.
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