Patna police book coach institute in case of dismissal; government. step in and limit rivalry

Students protest against the arrest of Gyan Bindu Coaching director Roshan Anand and demand his release in connection with the attack on the Khan Sira coaching center in Patna, Bihar, Thursday, June 4, 2026. | Photo credit: PTI

Patna-based educator and YouTuber Faisal Khan, popularly known as “Khan Sir”, was detained by the police on Friday (June 5, 2026) and questioned over the firing episode in the Bihar capital earlier this week.

On the night of June 2, about 20 people vandalized his coaching institute, Khan Global Studies (KGS), and brutally attacked the guards. After the incident, Mr. Khan’s two bodyguards fired shots in the air allegedly on the instructions of “Mr. Khan”. The bodyguards were arrested and Mr. Khan was named in the FIR registered in this connection.

Earlier, three people, including the owner and a teacher of a rival coaching institute, were arrested in connection with the attack on Mr Khan’s centre. However, members of a rival institute, the Gyan Bindu Coaching Centre, accused Mr Khan of masterminding the attack.

Two bodyguards were caught on video firing into the air on the night of the attack on Mr. Khan’s coaching institute in Patna’s Musallahpur Hat area. The police later arrested the bodyguards, confiscated their gun and sent them to jail. “Yes, tutor Khan Sir has been named in the FIR lodged at the Kadamkuan police station in Patna and will be questioned by the police in the case,” Patna Superintendent of Police (SSP) Kartikeya Sharma told reporters on Friday. However, the SSP did not reveal the allegations against Mr. Khan. However, police sources told The Hindu that “trouble seems to be mounting for him in the coming days”.

Following the attack on his coaching institute and subsequent arrest, Mr Khan praised the police for acting swiftly in the matter and providing security to his centre. “Some anti-social elements from a nearby coaching institute caused extensive damage, severely beat our guards and even fired shots. Their anger was ‘how can anyone teach students at such a low cost and still get good results every year’,” Mr Khan told reporters.

Political leaders blamed the incident on rivalry between owners of coaching institutes. “The state government will formulate a policy in the next three months to prevent such rivalry and the resulting law and order problems,” said state education minister Mithilesh Tiwari.

Meanwhile, sources from the coaching institute owners and the teaching community of the national capital told The Hindu that “days are not good for Khan sir. Trouble has just started for him…he may also be arrested in the case”. One of them said it could boomerang for him.

Recently, Mr. Khan made some cryptic remarks about a news anchor of a national news channel after she allegedly made offensive comments on YouTube against “do kaudi ke (useless) teachers”.

Published – 05 Jun 2026 21:17 IST