Nepal's Supreme Court today convicted Charles Sobhraj in a sensational murder case of an American tourist and upheld the life term awarded to him by lower courts. 66-year-old Sobhraj, a French national whose father was an Indian and mother a Vietnamese, was also found guilty by the apex court of possessing a fake passport. Rejecting the appeal of the international criminal in the 1975 murder case of US citizen Connie Jo Bronzich, a two-judge bench of the apex court comprising Ram Kumar Prasad Shaha and Gauri Dhakal upheld the verdicts of the Kathmandu district court and Patan appellate court in the matter. Reacting to the verdict, Sobhraj's lawyer Shakuntala Thapa, who is also his mother-in-law, claimed that her client was denied justice. Sobhraj's wife Nihita Biswas also expressed her dissatisfaction with the verdict and rejected all charges against him as baseless.