India, June 3 -- Can a Government employee be terminated from service for suppressing information about possessing higher qualifications than the prescribed degree for the job?

The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to examine a Telangana High Court verdict, which upheld the Centre's decision to terminate the service of a Scheduled Tribe person who had allegedly suppressed the information of being 'intermediate pass' than the prescribed 'tenth pass' criteria required for the job of 'work assistant'.

A bench of justices PS Narasimha, Aravind Kumar and Shree Chandershekar issued notice to the Centre on a plea of Pawar Subhash, who has challenged the order of the High Court dated November 27, 2025.

"This judgement is prima facie wrong. We wi...