“The parents are the best protectors of their own children. That is the order of the human nature but there have been freaks in the history of mankind where the father and the mother became the killer of their own progeny.

“They (Talwars) have extirpated their own daughter who hardly had seen 14 summers of her life and the servant without the compunction of terrestrial terrain in the breach of commandment ‘thou shall not kill' and injunction of Holy Quran ‘take not life which god has made sacred',” the judge said in his 204-page verdict.

The couple were soon taken into custody by Ghaziabad police, and later taken to Dasna jail.

With this, ended nearly five and a half years of litigation into India's biggest murder mystery.

Special Judge S. Lal had conducted a 15-month long trial of the Talar couple.