A video purportedly from Chhattisgarh’s Bilaspur is being widely circulated with claims that a woman in a burqa was caught with devices used for cheating during the entrance exam for Public Works Department (PWD) jobs.
The first part of the video shows a girl wearing a black headscarf in an auto rickshaw with a tablet, mobile phone, walkie-talkie and two bags. Some people are seen recording a video of her and accuse her of cheating in the PWD exam at the Ramdalai Exam Centre. Towards the end of the video, the same people show a mic and camera taped to a black garment, claiming it was used for cheating.
X user Ocean Jain shared the video and claimed, “A girl wearing a burqa/hijab has a camera and mic taped on her head outside a government job exam centre in Chhattisgarh, while a girl sitting on a rickshaw with a tablet and walkie-talkie is getting ready to go inside for the exam. Meanwhile, Hindu candidates were made to remove even their kalawa, janeu, and mangalsutra. Now do you understand why they create so much ruckus over the hijab?”
छत्तीसगढ़ में एक सरकारी नौकरी परीक्षा केंद्र के बाहर बुर्का/हिजाब पहने आई एक लड़की के सिर पर कैमरा और माइक टेप किया गया है ।
साथ ही टैबलेट और वॉकी-टॉकी के साथ रिक्शे पर बैठी एक लड़की अंदर परीक्षा देने जाने की तैयारी में है ।जबकि हिंदू उम्मीदवारों से कलावा, जनेऊ, मंगलसूत्र तक… pic.twitter.com/7JWUsqcMh1
— Ocean Jain (@ocjain4) July 14, 2025
Other X users, such as Sunanda Roy, Megh Updates, Frontal Force, Saffron Chargers, Pakistan Untold, Hindu Post, along with journalist Rakesh Krishna Sinha as well as X handles @JIX5A, @Vini__007, @Warlock_Shubh, @TeamJhaat__, @TheTreeni and @TimesAlgebraIND also amplified the video with similar claims.
BJP worker Priti Gandhi and X handles @SouleFacts, @jpsin1, and @erbmjha also shared the video with similar captions. These X accounts are followed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Meanwhile, some social media users shared the video, claiming it was during PWD recruitment exams in Uttarakhand. These users wrote that the insistence on wearing hijabs was so that they could hide devices in these scarves and cheat. They demanded a ban on hijabs and burqas in the country.
Fact Check
Alt News performed a keyword search of the viral claim, which led us to a report published by Dainik Bhaskar on July 14, 2025, with this video. According to the report, during the PWD sub-engineer recruitment exam held in the Sarkanda police station area of the Bilaspur district of Chhattisgarh on July 13, a female candidate named Anusurya had a spy camera and earphones hidden in her undergarments inside the Ram Dulare Swami Atmanand School examination centre. Her sister Anuradha, sitting in an auto rickshaw parked at a short distance from the school, was giving her answers to the questions with the help of a walkie-talkie and wireless mic.
News outlets Patrika and ABP News also reported the same on the incident. The NSUI (National Student Union of India) leaders caught them red-handed and made a video, which is now going viral on social media.
According to the report, both sisters were arrested after a case of cheating was registered against them. Also, there is no mention of hijabs in the reports. However, the name of the candidate who cheated (Anusurya) and her sister (Anuradha) make it clear that they were from the Hindu community.
To sum up, the viral video shows Anuradha, the sister of an applicant who was caught sharing answers outside an examination centre in Bilaspur. Anusurya, the candidate writing the exam, had a spy camera and device hidden in her innerwear. These devices are seen towards the end of the viral clip. The applicant and her sister both have Hindu names; the communal claims are, thus, baseless.
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