P.Rajagopal is the disgraced founder of Saravana Bhavan

Saravana Bhavan

Hotel Saravana Bhavan is a vegetarian restaurant chain founded in 1981 offering south Indian cuisine. ]. They have more than 20 outlets in Chennai and several outside India including USA, Canada, London, Paris, Singapore, Malaysia, and the Middle East.saravana bhavan is leading veg...

 chain of restaurants. He is the son of a farmer who plied onion wholesale trade. He was born in a small village called Punnaiyadi, Tuticorin District, in 1947. In 1973, a few years after he came to Chennai, he started a general provisions store in K K Nagar. In 1981, he started a small hotel in K K Nagar.

Life sentence

In November 2008, the founder's son P. Shiva Kumar was arrested on a charge of forging documents to smuggle people into the US. In 2009, the brand value of the restaurant chain plunged after the founder Rajagopal was sentenced to life by Madras High Court after being convicted of murder of an employee Prince Shantakumar in 2001 and sexual harassment of his wife Jeevajothi.