A bench of Chief Justice S H Kapadia, and justices K S Radhakrishnan and Swatanter Kumar dismissed the petitions filed by private schools seeking review of it April 12 judgement in which in had upheld constitutional validity of the RTE Act.
The bench had ruled by a 2:1 majority against the private schools.
While Justice Kapadia and Justice Kumar had given the majority verdict, Justice Radhakrishnan, who had given a dissenting judgement on some aspects of the law, had asserted that the provision for 25 per cent compulsory free seats would not apply either to unaided private institutions or to unaided minority schools.
The apex court had rejected the arguments of the private schools that imposition of such conditions violated their fundamental right guaranteed under Article 19(1)(g) (carry out any profession) as being "unreasonable".
