diff --git a/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless5/.conformer.py.swp b/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless5/.conformer.py.swp
index 47b4262c0..901666df3 100644
Binary files a/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless5/.conformer.py.swp and b/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless5/.conformer.py.swp differ
diff --git a/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless5/conformer.py b/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless5/conformer.py
index 2ef747973..cea04985e 100644
--- a/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless5/conformer.py
+++ b/egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless5/conformer.py
@@ -197,8 +197,6 @@ class Conformer(EncoderInterface):
 
         x = x.permute(1, 0, 2)  # (T, N, C) ->(N, T, C)
 
-        layer_output = [x.permute(1, 0, 2) for x in layer_output]
-
         return x, lengths
 
     @torch.jit.export