The Delhi High Court on Wednesday expressed displeasure over the slow process of inducting low-floor buses in the national capital and asked the state government to file a status report on it.

"Why the buses have not been acquired? The speed of acquiring buses is very slow,"a Bench comprising Chief Justice A P Shah and Justice S Muralidhar said while directing the government to file a status report on the acquisition of the buses by the Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC).

The Court had earlier had directed the government to finalise the tender process for low-floor buses so that more new buses will replace the Blueline buses on the capital's roads.

The Court had passed the order after it took into cognisance on its own a series of accidents, involving Blueline buses resulting in the death of several people here.