JUDGMENT 1. The petitioner was a Driver employed in the respondent Transport Corporation. He was imposed with the punishment of stoppage of increment for three years with cumulative effect, vide proceedings dated 04.04.2001 of the second respondent. The appeal preferred by the petitioner was rejected by the first respondent vide proceedings dated 09.11.2001. 2. After 11 years, the petitioner has filed the present writ petition, seeking to quash the aforesaid order dated 04.04.2001 of the second respondent and the order dated 09.11.2001 of the first respondent. However, no reason is given in the affidavit filed in support of the writ petition for such a belated filing of the writ petition. 3. The learned counsel for the petitioner submitted that the petitioner waited for the outcome of the criminal case and therefore, there was a delay in filing the writ petition. 4. The submission made by the learned counsel for the petitioner has no basis. The departmental action is nothing to do with the criminal case. Though the criminal case ended in acquittal in the year 2005 itself, the writ petition is filed after six years of the acquittal by the Criminal Court. 5. In view of the laches in filing the writ petition, the writ petition deserves to be dismissed and accordingly, the same stands dismissed. No costs.