Puneet Puneet kicked Australian diplomatic car, failed to attend medical, Delhi court
FATAL hit-run driver Puneet Puneet kicked an Australian diplomatic car and has failed to attend a medical assessment ordered by a judge, a Delhi court has been told.
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FATAL hit-run driver Puneet Puneet kicked an Australian diplomatic car and has failed to attend a medical assessment ordered by a judge, a Delhi court has been told.
Judge Gurmohina Kaur is deciding whether Puneet should be extradited from India to Australia to face sentence for running into and killing Queensland man Dean Hoftsee, 19, as he sped drunk along City Rd in Southbank in 2008.
PUNEET PUNEET’S EXCUSE TO ESCAPE EXTRADITION
Mr Hoftsee’s friend, Clancy Coker, was also severely injured.
Puneet fled while on bail awaiting sentencing and went into hiding in India.
The Patiala District Court in Delhi was today told Puneet “kicked the car of Australian diplomats” after an earlier hearing, despite claiming to be physically and mentally frail.
The court also heard Puneet failed to attend a medical assessment on his mental state in relation to extradition, prompting Judge Kaur to admonish the defence, saying “we have wasted a month over this”.
“My orders are in black and white, they are not in requirement of interpretation. Why did he not show up?”
Prosecution lawyers asked why, if Puneet was so unstable and physically weak, was he seen kicking a car belonging to the Australian High Commission, with diplomatic plates, outside the court a month ago.
The defence denied the incident occurred.
Judge Kaur gave them until August 23 to submit the medical report to the court.
Puneet was in court being propped up by relatives and spent the entire hearing looking at the floor with his right arm shaking.