The Supreme Court has upheld the life sentence awarded to two persons for killing a Muslim man after he converted two Hindu girls to Islam and married them in Tamil Nadu's Coimbatore district. A bench of Justices F M I Kalifulla and Uday Umesh Lalit upheld the punishment awarded by the Madras High Court to Kamal and Vishwanathan for stabbing to death one Sultan Meeran in 2002.<br/><br/>The apex court was hearing appeals filed by the convicts against the verdict of the Madras High Court, which had confirmed life sentence handed down to them by the trial<br/>court.