JUDGMENT :

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RAJIV SAHAI ENDLAW, J.

(A) These petitions, though by different petitioners but filed through the same advocate, have some similarity in facts and are being listed together and have today also been heard together and are disposed of by this common judgment. However for the sake of clarity of facts, first the narrative of W.P.(C) 4557/2021 is given herein below and thereafter under W.P.(C) 4662/2021, only the facts which are different therein are highlighted.

W.P.(C) 4557/2021

1. The petitioner, being a candidate for recruitment as an Airman in the respondents Indian Air Force, during the recruitment drive of the year 2019, has filed this petition impugning the decision of the Appeal Medical Board finding the petitioner unfit for serving in the respondents Indian Air Force.

2. This petition, impugning the finding dated 22nd August, 2019, of the Appeal Medical Board, is dated 8th April, 2021 and came up first before this Court on 15th April, 2021, i.e. after nearly twenty months of the date when the Appeal Medical Board found the petitioner unfit. We have thus, at the outset enquired from the counsel for the petitioner, why the petition, claiming the rel