Educator ‘Khan Sir’ moves Patna HC to quash FIR lodged against him

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Security personnel stand guard during a protest staged by students after a coaching institute of educator Faisal Khan, popularly known as 'Khan Sir', was allegedly vandalised and pelted with stones, in Patna on June 3, 2026. | Photo Credit: PTI

Appealing to quash the FIR lodged against him by the Patna police, educator and YouTuber Faisal Khan, who is also popularly known as ‘Khan Sir’, moved the Patna High Court on Wednesday (June 10, 2026) and urged the court to order the reopening of his coaching institute.

The court gave four weeks’ time to the State government for submitting a response. Earlier on June 9, a local court in Patna had stayed the arrest of Mr. Khan “till further orders” and had fixed June 20 as the next date of hearing.

Mr. Khan approached the High Court with an appeal to quash the FIR lodged against him at Patna’s Kadamkuan police station in connection with an attack and firing incident at his coaching institute Khan Global Studies (KGS) located at Musallahapur Hat area on June 2. An FIR was lodged on June 4 against Mr. Khan under Sections 109 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) and Sections 25(9), 27, and 35 of the Arms Act against three persons including Mr. Khan, after a video went viral on social media in which two bodyguards of Mr. Khan, Deepak Kumar and Talebar Singh, were seen firing in the air.

Later, the two bodyguards were taken into custody by the police and their weapons too were seized for forensic examination. The arrested bodyguards, though, had told the police that they fired in the air on the day of the attack at the coaching institute at the instructions of Mr. Khan.

After hearing the criminal writ petitions by Mr. Khan on Wednesday, the High Court granted four weeks’ time to the Bihar government to file its response. Mr. Khan also urged the court to order the reopening of his coaching institute that was attacked by a group of around 20 people on the night of June 2. The institute remained closed following the incident and the subsequent