<span style="color: #222222;">The Supreme Court declined to entertain the plea of P Rajagopal, the founder of food chain 'Saravana Bhavan', seeking more time on medical grounds to surrender for serving life imprisonment in a murder case.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"><br />''A bench headed by Justice N V Ramana said his illness was not raised before it during the hearing of the case appeal.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"><br />'' Rajagopal was to surrender on July 7 to serve life term for murdering an employee in October 2001 to marry his wife.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"><br />'' Earlier, an apex court bench had dismissed appeals of nine convicts, including Rajagopal, and upheld the Madras High Court verdict awarding life term to them.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"><br />'' The high court had in 2009 enhanced to life term the 10-year imprisonment awarded by a local court to Rajagopal and eight others in the murder case.</span><br />''<br />''<br />'' <br />