Delhi The family of Dean Hofstee has been forced to endure another delay with the legal team representing runaway Indian driver Puneet Puneet continuing to use delaying tactics in his extradion trial.

Mr Hofstee,19, was killed when Puneet, speeding and drunk, hit him in Melbourne's Southbank on October 1, 2008.

Puneet Puneet after being bailed from the Melbourne Magistrates Court in October 2008. Credit:Angela Wylie

At the latest hearing on Friday, Puneet's counsel said that his witness, Pankaj Monga, had arrived in the Indian capital to provide his testimony to the court but had been struck down by a case of gastro-enteritis so bad that he had been taken to a local hospital for treatment.

Since he was unable to appear, Justice Gurmohini Kaur postponed the hearing.