The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) on Friday approached the Supreme Court against a Madras High Court order staying the declaration of the NEET 2017 results.
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.
‘Schedule went haywire’
The CBSE mentioned the matter before a Vacation Bench of Justices Ashok Bhushan and Deepak Gupta and said that because of the stay, the schedule of counselling and admission to the MBBS and BDS courses had gone “haywire.”
The fate of 12 lakh candidates was under suspension because of the order, it said.
The CBSE dismissed the allegation that the questions in English and vernacular languages were of varying levels of difficulty.
They were set and whetted by experts, it said. It pointed out that various such petitions were pending before different High Courts and they should all be transferred to the Supreme Court.
Around 10.5 lakh students have taken the exam in either Hindi or English and 1.25 lakh-1.50 lakh in eight vernacular languages.
