Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews says the coward driver who fled to India to escape sentencing over a fatal drunken crash should return to Australia and face justice.
Puneet was a 19-year-old learner driver in October 2008 when he hit and killed 19-year-old nursing student Dean Hofstee and seriously injured 20-year-old Clancy Coker in Melbourne.
He was on bail and awaiting sentence after pleading guilty to culpable driving when he fled Australia in 2009 using a friend's passport and hid for more than four years until his capture.
Daniel Andrews says he will raise the case with Indian officials when he travels to the country this month.
"The fact that he in a cowardly act, scarpered, ran away from facing the consequences of his actions, speaks volumes for his character, the sort of person he is and I think everybody across Victoria would be pleased to see him sent back to do the jail time that he should do right here." Mr Andres says.
