#NEET illustrate the gravity of the issue
Whenever a major examination paper is leaked in India, the initial public discourse usually focuses on the students, solver gangs, or small-scale cheating rackets operating at examination centres. News channels repeatedly show familiar scenes, someone transmitting answers through devices, another solving papers for money, or individuals distributing slips outside examination venues. Society, too, tends to view these actors as the primary culprits. However, a deeper examination of the system reveals that they are merely the lowest links in a vast and deeply entrenched chain of corruption. The real game is played much higher up in the system where power, administration, greed, and influence converge. I have personally witnessed how cheating mafias operate, not merely isolated cases in individual rooms, but organized groups of students systematically engaging in malpractice. I have seen people stationed outside examination centres sending answers and coordinating cheating networ...