The Delhi High Court today rejected a plea of two death row convicts in the December 16 gang-rape case for Hindi translation of certain documents including the trial court's conviction and sentence orders in the case, saying they are adopting delaying tactics.

A bench of justices Reva Khetrapal and Pratibha Rani rejected the arguments of M L Sharma, counsel for convicts Pawan and Mukesh, that they do not understand English as they are illiterate and they should be supplied with Hindi translated copy of the documents.

"It seems the application is only a methodology adopted to protract the hearing of the appeal.

"No efforts have been made to remove the objections raised by the Registry in their appeal (provisional) although ample time was given to them," the bench said and directed the Registry to list their appeal before it on November 1.

"If you go on like this, a feeling will come to the mind of the court that you want to delay the case. Do you want that feeling to come to the court's mind?" the bench said.