India, Dec. 3 -- The Delhi high court on Wednesday refused to entertain a petition seeking the appointment of a committee to monitor the Red Fort blast trial and conclude it within six months, saying that "mere apprehension of delay in a trial that has not still begun cannot warrant judicial supervision."

A bench of chief justice DK Upadhyay and justice Tushar Rao Gedela was hearing a petition filed by former Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) Pankaj Pushkar, which said that the previous Red Fort blast case of December 2000 had taken seven years for the trial court to conclude, and there was a likelihood of delay in this case too.

Opposing the petition, the Centre's counsel, additional solicitor general Chetan Sharma, said that th...