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12. Consequently, the petitioner is restrained from seeking quashing of the acquisition proceedings (supra), which were lawfully terminated in the year 1974. Moreover, the claim of the petitioner is grossly time barred and is stained with the vice of perversity, delay and laches. It is no more res integra that the person, who raises a claim after a considerable delay, is required to be told that delay and laches have closed the doors of courts for him. This aspect has been considered by the Hon'ble Apex Court in a judgment rendered in case titled "Star Wire (India) Ltd. V/s State of Haryana and others", re- ported in (1996) 11 SCC 698, wherein, it has been held that any belated chal- lenge, as made to the relevant fully terminated acquisition proceedings, is hit by the vices of delay and laches, and therefore, such a belated motion is re- quired to be declared as misconstituted. The relevant paragraph is reproduced as under:-