CWP NO. 15088 of 2006 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH CWP NO. 15088 of 2006 DATE OF DECISION: 21.9.2006 Atma Singh ....Petitioner. Versus The State of Punjab and others ....Respondents. CORAM: HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE J.S. KHEHAR HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE S.D. ANAND PRESENT: Mr. M.K. Sood, Advocate for the petitioner. J.S. Khehar, J. (oral) The petitioner was inducted into the service of the respondents as S.P.O. on 18.7.1994. On account of an incident which occurred on 12.8.2000, whereupon a first information report was registered at Ludhiana, the petitioner was taken into custody on the date of the notice itself i.e. 12.8.2000. The petitioner remained in police custody upto 22.8.2000. On his release, the petitioner was dismissed from service by an order dated 22.8.2000. In order to impugn the aforesaid order, the petitioner preferred an appeal more than 6 years thereafter on 18.3.2006. The aforesaid appeal was filed, as it ought to have been, by the order dated 4.4.2006. Through the instant writ petition, in sum and substance, the petitioner impugns the order of his dismissal from service dated 22.8.2000. It is not possible for us to entertain the instant plea raised at the behest of the petitioner six years after the aforesaid order was passed, when the period CWP NO. 15088 of 2006 2 of limitation debars the petitioner even to file a civil suit. Dismissed for reasons of delay and laches. ( J.S. Khehar ) Judge ( S.D. Anand ) September 21, 2006. Judge vig