Maharashtra School Education Minister Dadaji Bhuse recently said his department aims to conduct ‘copy-free examinations’ irrespective of whether students wear a burqa or not, according to the news agency Press Trust of India.

He was responding to a query about Fisheries Minister Nitesh Rane’s letter to him seeking a ban on wearing burqa by students during the Std X and XII board exams, to be held this month, to curb copying.