The government cannot dump its constitutional obligation to provide free and compulsory elementary education to children on “non-state actors” like private schools, whether minority or non-minority run, Justice K S Radhakrishnan observed in his dissenting judgment. “Article 21A (right to access to education) casts an obligation on the State to provide free and compulsory education to children of the age of 6 to 14 years and not on unaided non-minority and minority educational institutions,” the judge wrote.