The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld life imprisonment to a man who murdered two children by administering them celphos, a pest control fumigant.

A bench, comprising Justices Indu Malhotra and Ajay Rastogi, said: "The prosecution case, in totality with motive of the crime that he was living in a relationship with the complainant Anju who had two children from the previous marriage, and had taken away the life of two minor innocent children at the very threshold of their life and murdered in a brutal manner by administering celphos to them, has been established."