Mumbai, Aug 6 - The husband-wife team and their aide convicted for the 2003 Mumbai twin blasts were Thursday sentenced to death by a special court here.

Mohammed Hanif Sayed, his wife Fahimida M. H. Sayed and their associate Ashrat Shafique Ansari were held guilty of carrying out the Aug 25, 2003, blasts in Gateway of India and Zaveri Bazar in which 54 people were killed and 244 injured.

'This is a major jolt for the LeT (Lashkar-e-Taiba) and it is the first time in India that a family has been found guilty of carrying out terrorist operations,' prosecution lawyer Ujjwal Nikam said last week.