About a week before the NEET ‘paper leak’ controversy erupted, the Delhi Police was scouting a hotel in South Delhi’s Mahipalpur — they were probing another kind of ‘NEET-linked’ scam. On May 2, sources said, Crime Branch officers in the national capital got a from the Additional Commissioner of Police in Surat about a man named Vinod Bhai Bika Bhai Patel. Patel, a broker in Surat, had been claiming in Gujarat that he could get students admitted to top-tier medical institutions through NEET. And he and his three friends were staying in the Mahipalpur hotel. With the nation-wide medical entrance exam just a day away, a police team swiftly brought the men in for questioning. This is what Patel told them. “He had convinced some students in his friends’ and family circle that he would give them access to probable questions just a day before the exam, and they could solve it in Delhi before appearing,” said an officer investigating the case.…