New Delhi: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) on Friday approached the Supreme Court against a Madras High Court order to stay declaration of results of National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET), which was taken by 11.38 lakh students for admission to MBBS and BDS courses.

On May 24, the Madurai Bench of the High Court granted an interim stay on the declaration of the results on a batch of petitions alleging that the test was not conducted in a uniform manner and the question papers in English and Tamil were different and of varying difficulty.

CBSE said it had decided to make the question papers in vernacular languages different from those in English and Hindi to ensure that in the event of any leak of question papers in vernacular languages, it would not entail cancellation of the entire examination.

Additional solicitor general Maninder Singh sought an urgent hearing on the CBSE's appeal before a bench of Justices Ashok Bhushan and Deepak Gupta and said delay in declaration of NEET results would not only create anxiety among a vast section of the student community, but would also put in jeopardy timely completion of admissions to undergraduate courses - MBBS and BDS - in government and private medical colleges.