NEW DELHI: An Indian restaurant tycoon known as the Dosa King died in hospital yesterday, a week after beginning a life sentence for the murder of a love rival. P. Rajagopal, 71, was convicted of the murder of his love interest's husband in 2004 but went to...
Rajagopal rose from rags to riches, creating a chain which now has more than 80 restaurants in India and around the world, from London's Leicester Square to New York's Lexington Avenue and also Singapore, Sydney and Stockholm.
But his success was overshadowed by his conviction over the killing of the husband of a woman he wanted to make his third wife. His trial heard that an astrologer had told him to marry the woman, then in her 20s, but she was already wed and repeatedly rejected Rajagopal's advances. A court convicted Rajagopal in 2004 and sentenced him to 10 years in prison. This was increased to life imprisonment when his appeal was rejected by the High Court in 2009, and Rajagopal had battled to avoid prison ever since with a series of appeals.
It was unclear whether the tycoon spent any time in prison when the final appeal was exhausted earlier this month.
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