New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday upheld the life imprisonment of P. Rajagopal, the owner of south Indian hotel chain Saravana Bhavan, for murdering an employee in October 2001 so as to marry his wife.

Upholding the sentence of life imprisonment, the bench of Justice N.V. Ramana, Justice Mohan M. Shantanagoudar and Justice Indira Banerjee said: "We find that the evidence on record fully proves the case of prosecution and that the trial court, as well as the high court, evaluated the material on record in its proper prospective while coming to their conclusion."