Challenging the directives of the Education Department, which threatened to shut down the school and revoke its recognition on the grounds of alleged violations of the Right to Education Act, the Kapol Vidyanidhi International School in Kandivli has taken its case to the Bombay High Court. Both the school’s management and the Kapol Vidyanidhi Trust, which runs the school, have underscored that as a linguistic (Gujarati) minority institution, they are not obligated to adhere to the provisions outlined in the RTE Act of 2009.

The school filed a writ petition against the state government, the State Education Department, the BMC, and education officials on August 28. They have invoked a significant precedent set by the Supreme Court in 2014, which established that the RTE Act does not apply to either aided or unaided minority institutions.