Runaway Indian driver Puneet Puneet has reportedly begged the family of the Queensland student he killed to pardon him as he continues to fight extradition to Australia to face charges over the drunken crash.

Puneet was a 19-year-old learner driver when he ran into and killed Queensland student Dean Hofstee, 19, and seriously injured Clancy Coker, 20, in Southbank, on October 1, 2008. He was drunk at the time.

Puneet was on bail and awaiting sentence after pleading guilty to culpable driving when he fled Australia using a friend's passport in 2009.

He was arrested four years later in India, on his wedding day.