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"9. We have today again considered whether the petitioner is
entitled to yet another chance and are unable to find any
justification for the same. We have already in the order dated
6th July, 2020 observed that fitness for serving requisite duties in
the Air Force is a matter of opinion and if in the opinion of the
authorities constituted under the Rules of the Air Force the
petitioner is unfit, a report of a medical practitioner of another
organization which does not intend to recruit the petitioner and
which will not be affected by the medical unfitness of the
"Priti" hereinafter
petitioner, cannot be the basis for interfering with the assessment
by the Air Force. It cannot be lost sight of that just as in justice
delivery, appeal provisions are provided to eliminate the possibility
of human error, so have a sufficient number of opportunities of
preferring an appeal and thereafter preferring a review have been
provided in the matter of medical examination and just like the
decision making before the Courts cannot be indefinite, so can the
decision making with respect to medical fitness in the Air Force,
cannot be indefinite. There has to be a finality in decision making,
as is there in the justice delivery system. It cannot be lost sight of
that no mala fides are attributed with respect to any of the medical
examinations or to the team of medical professionals conducting
the medical examination. It is the medical practitioners of the Air
Force and Defence Services, who have themselves undergone the
requisite trainings and discharge the functions of the organization,
who are best suited to form an opinion as to the medical fitness of
the candidates to be recruited and once they have so formed their
opinion, there can be no interference therewith, at the mere asking
of a rejected/disgruntled candidate.