The Supreme Court has dismissed a plea to re-look at its verdict of upholding Right To Education Act (RTE), under which all government, private aided and unaided schools were asked to reserve 25 per cent seats for poor children.

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.

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.