Dentist couple Rajesh and Nupur Talwar were sentenced by the special CBI court in Ghaziabad. The verdict was delivered over an hour later than expected.

The Talwars were given the life term.   

The arguments lasted for just 10 minutes.

The couple has been held guilty of killing their 14-year-old daughter Aarushi and domestic help Hemraj in their house in Noida in May 2008.

They were convicted at 3:25 pm yesterday. Additional Sessions Judge Shyam Lal on Monday held both of them also guilty of destruction of evidence in the murder on the intervening night of May 15 and 16, 2008, days before the birthday of the Std IX student.

Both were convicted under section 302 (murder) of the IPC, while Rajesh Talwar was also convicted under section 203 of the Indian Penal Code for filing wrong information with the Noida police station about the incident.

The Talwars said yesterday that they will challenge the verdict in the Allahabad High Court.

The last time the rarest of rare instance was cited by the prosecution and granted by the judge was during the December 16 rape case. Yesterday, the judge had called the Talwars "freaks in the history of mankind where the father and mother became the killer of their own progeny."

Family and friends of the Talwars say the verdict may have been given but it was a miscarriage of justice.