New Delhi, July 7 (IANS) A court Wednesday deferred till Thursday the hearing on the quantum of sentence in the 2007 murders of an elderly woman and her grandson by their domestic help in Vasant Kunj in south Delhi.

Additional Sessions Judge S.K. Sarvaria deferred the matter.

On July 1, the court convicted accused Mithilesh Kumar Singh for murder, robbery and attempt to murder. According to the prosecution, Singh could be awarded the death penalty.

Singh, a resident of Samastipur in Bihar, killed Surjit Kaur, 60, and her grandson Karamveer Singh, 12, March 2, 2007.