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New Delhi, Jan 6: The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a petition filed by two private schools managements challenging the ban imposed by the Delhi High Court on interviews of nursery kids and their parents at the time of admission.

A bench comprising the Chief Justice-designate KG Balakrishnan and Justice DK Jain, however, granted liberty to the petitioners to approach the High Court afresh for raising their objections vis-a-vis the Ganguly committee recommendations.

The high court-appointed Ganguly committee had come out with suggestions to dispense with the practice of interviewing kids and parents by school managements.

The petitioner contended that the impugned judgement of the high court was in violation of statutory provisions of the Delhi Primary Education Act and the provisions cannot be done away with through a court order.

He also contended that there can be no admission policy on an experimental basis and the principal of school had unfettered powers to regulate admissions and the schools cannot be prevented from interacting with the parents at least to verify the documents submitted by parents.

Jain remarked that today it was the most profitable business venture in the city.

The apex court refused to give directions to the high court to dispose of the objections of schools on January 17, 2006 the next date of hearing.

The apex court refused to grant interim relief to the petitioner, saying that the parents aggrieved by the admission policy, should have approached the court and wanted to know why the petitioners were so keen in interviewing the children and their parents.