Hit-run driver Puneet Puneet (right) leaves court with his uncle in New Dehli in June.

New Delhi: The final extradition hearing for runaway killer driver Puneet Puneet has been adjourned after his lawyer was "unwell" and could not attend the trial. The extradition trial has seen repeated attempts by Puneet’s lawyer to delay the proceedings.

Puneet fled to India to avoid being sentenced in Australia for the 2008 death of Dean Hofstee, a Queensland student, in Melbourne. He was a 19-year-old learner driver when he killed Hofstee and seriously injured Clancy Coker in the same crash, in which he was driving drunk at at 150km/h in a 60km/h zone.

Puneet’s extradition case has now been going on for five years, prolonging the anguish of the families of his victims who want him sent back to Australia to face justice.

Justice Gurmohina Kaur of the Patiala House Court in New Delhi had listed the case for both lawyers to present their final arguments.