Higher Qualification for Government Job : Supreme Court Weighs the Legal Issue

Higher Qualification for Government Job : Supreme Court Weighs the Legal Issue

Courts cannot rewrite service rules, determine equivalence of qualifications, or substitute their own assessment for that of the employer. Merely because there is a provision for lateral entry of diplomates in the second year of B. Pharm course, it does not render the degree an in-line higher qualification. A qualification in one stream does not presuppose a qualification in another. 

Md. Firoz Mansuri v. The State of Bihar [2026] GCtR 46 (SC)