Patna police book coaching institute owner in firing case; govt. to step in to curb rivalry

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Students stage a protest against arrest of Gyan Bindu Coaching director Roshan Anand and demanded his release in connection with the attack on Khan Sir's coaching center, in Patna, Bihar, Thursday, June 04, 2026. | Photo Credit: PTI

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

On the night of June 2, around 20 people vandalised his coaching institute, Khan Global Studies (KGS), and brutally attacked a security guard. Following the incident, Mr. Khan’s two bodyguards fired in the air allegedly on the instructions of “Khan sir”. The bodyguards were arrested and Mr. Khan was named in an FIR registered in this connection.

Earlier, three persons, including the owner and teacher of a rival coaching institute, were arrested over the attack on Mr. Khan’s centre. Members of the rival institute, Gyan Bindu coaching centre, however, blamed Mr. Khan for orchestrating the attack.

The two bodyguards had been caught in a video firing in the air on the night of the attack on Mr. Khan’s coaching institute at Musallahpur Hat area of Patna. The police, later, arrested the bodyguards, seized their weapon, and sent them to jail. “Yes, educator Khan Sir has been named in the FIR lodged at the Kadamkuan Police station in Patna and he will be questioned in the case by the police,” Patna Superintendent of Police (SSP) Kartikeya Sharma told presspersons on Friday. The SSP, though, did not reveal the charges against Mr. Khan. However, police sources told The Hindu that “trouble seems to be mounting for him in days to come”.

After the attack on his coaching institute and the subsequent arrests, Mr. Khan had praised the police for acting promptly on the issue and for providing security to his centre. “Some anti-social elements from a nearby coaching institute carried out widespread damage, beat our guard badly and even fired gunshots. Their anger