{"id":310893,"date":"2019-03-29T08:13:15","date_gmt":"2019-03-29T08:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=310893"},"modified":"2019-03-29T08:13:15","modified_gmt":"2019-03-29T08:13:15","slug":"sc-confirms-life-term-for-saravana-bhavan-owner-p-rajagopal-in-2001-murder-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/sc-confirms-life-term-for-saravana-bhavan-owner-p-rajagopal-in-2001-murder-case\/","title":{"rendered":"SC confirms life term for Saravana Bhavan owner P Rajagopal in 2001 murder case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-305446 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Supreme-Court-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"464\" height=\"308\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/Supreme-Court-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/Supreme-Court-633x420.jpg 633w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/Supreme-Court.jpg 660w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 464px) 100vw, 464px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Supreme Court on Friday confirmed the conviction and life sentence of Saravana Bhavan owner P Rajagopal&#8217;s for the abduction and murder of one of his employees in 2001.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The top court today upheld the Madras High Court\u2019s order of life term to P Rajagopal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Besides Rajagopal, five others were also sentenced for the murder of Santhakumar.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Santhakumar, the husband of Jeevajothi whom P Rajagopal wanted to marry was murdered and buried at Perumalmalai in the Kodaikanal forests.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">It was the case of the prosecution that Rajagopal wanted her as his third wife and plotted the murder of the employee.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court on Friday confirmed the conviction and life sentence of Saravana Bhavan owner P Rajagopal&#8217;s for the abduction and murder of one of his employees in 2001. The top court today upheld the Madras High Court\u2019s order of life term to P Rajagopal. Besides Rajagopal, five others were also sentenced for the murder [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":305446,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[11210,11212,11211,134],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310893"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310893"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310898,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310893\/revisions\/310898"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/305446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}