JUDGMENT

A.M. Khanwilkar, J.

The respondents in the aforementioned two appeals and the petitioner in the companion writ petition served as officers of Army Medical Corps, a Medical Service, under the Government of India, with more than 20 years of commissioned/Group-A gazette service. The Army Medical Corps is a cadre of Doctors serving in the Army, Navy and Air Force. It is an organized medical service of Central Government.

2. The respondents in the two appeals approached the Armed Forces Tribunal at New Delhi, by way of an Original Application contending that they were entitled to receive Dynamic Assured Career Progression as per the DACP Scheme, as approved by the Central Government. Even the writ petitioner in the companion writ petition has sought similar relief. He has prayed for a direction against the Central Government to implement the DACP scheme even in relation to the medical officers/doctors who are commissioned officers of the Armed Forces.

3. An Original Application seeking similar relief was filed by one Col. Sanjeev Sehgal [O.A. No. 488 of 2011 before the Armed Fo