The Bombay High Court on Thursday upheld the life sentence awarded to a 34-year-old man for killing his girlfriend, who was employed with a BPO, at her residence in neighbouring Thane district 13 years ago.

A division bench of Justices S S Jadhav and P K Chavan was hearing an appeal filed by Acquino Martis, challenging a sessions court's May 2012 judgment convicting him on the charges of murder and sentencing him to life imprisonment.