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An Indian court on Monday found a dentist couple guilty of murdering their 14-year-old daughter and a servant five years ago, in a dramatic finale to a case that transfixed the country and tapped unease on both sides of the rich-poor divide. Aarushi Talwar was found with her throat slit at the family home in Noida, an affluent town of new shopping malls and offices near Delhi, in 2008. A day later, the body of the Nepalese family servant, Hemraj, was discovered. Rajesh and Nupur Talwar were convicted in a local court in Ghaziabad, near Noida, and remanded in custody ahead of sentencing on Tuesday - they could face the death penalty. Early in the investigation, police alleged Rajesh had murdered his daughter and servant in a rage after finding them in a compromising situation - the kind of crime more often associated with rural, conservative parts of India where 'honour killings' are not uncommon. Naresh Yadav, a lawyer present in court, told reporters waiting outside that the couple and members of their family broke down in tears when the verdict was read out. But the case was plagued with blunders from the start. In the hours after Aarushi, was found dead in her bedroom, police named Hemraj as the prime suspect. They even dispatched a team to Nepal to look for him. But the housekeeper wasn't missing - his body was discovered lying on a terrace above Aarushi's room. It had been there the whole time. The Talwars came under suspicion early on, and police said the manner of the girl's death suggested she was killed with surgical precision, a clear nod to the Talwars' medical profession. 'The way in which Aarushi's throat was cut points out that it was the work of some professional, who could be a doctor or a butcher,' a top police official, Brij Lal, told reporters in 2008. Police have offered several possible motives, including an honour killing. Although authorities questioned other possible suspects, the case stalled. In 2011, the Talwars demanded a fresh investigation. Both parents were later charged, but the Talwars always denied the murder and blamed sensational media coverage for demonising them and damaging their defence. They also described a Kafkaesque trail of botched police operations, arrests, 'truth serum' tests and contradictory rulings by different investigative bodies. Much has been made in the media of the fact that the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), India's federal detective agency, relied on circumstantial evidence to pursue the Talwars. R.K. Saini, representing the CBI, defended the prosecution. 'There were so many circumstances that proved that no one could have committed the murder other than the two accused,' he said. But the Aarushi case, in which police named Hemraj as the murder suspect before his body was found, resonated with the rapidly expanding number of well-off families who fret that their wealth makes them vulnerable to violence.