India, May 17 -- The ink was barely dry on the NEET-UG answer sheets when the first whispers began. Then came the screenshots, the WhatsApp forwards, the outraged parents, and finally, the staggering admission: the paper had leaked. Millions of students who had spent years - and their families, lakhs of rupees - preparing for a single exam were told, in effect, that the game had been rigged before it began. The government responded swiftly - ordering a CBI investigation, announcing a re-examination, and fast-tracking systemic reforms. But even as accountability was being demanded in the right places, one culpable party continued to escape scrutiny: the vast, lucrative coaching industry that had built an entire economy around gaming the ve...