Patna: A dispute over a poster claiming success in a competitive examination escalated into a police case, the arrest of a coaching centre owner and a search for another by Patna Police. On the night of June 2, ‘Khan Sir’ or Faisal Khan, who runs the coaching institute named Khan Global Studies, put up a poster that said 12,000 of his students had cleared a test to recruit 19,383 police constables. His centre is located on the same premises as Raushan Anand’s Gyan Bindu GS Academy, which is known for good results in Bihar police constable examinations and had claimed 10,000 of the selected candidates were its students.

The poster appears to have taken the simmering competition between two institutes to the level of an altercation. An employee of Gyan Bindu GS Academy told The Wire, “The poster was pasted in a way that it has covered the signboard of Gyan Bindu.” He alleged that “it was done deliberately”. Thereafter, the Khan Global Studies poster was torn, allegedly on the same night, by supporters of the rival institute.

Students enrolled at the centres also claimed that the Khan Global Studies office itself was attacked with stones and a guard on duty was beaten up. When The Wire visited the locality, a part of the main signboard of Khan Global Studies still lay broken. A trademark cut-out poster of Khan Sir on two other signboards had been removed. Khan Sir initially claimed shots were fired during the altercation, but later denied this happened. An employee of his institute approached the police with a complaint. The police arrested three Gyan Bindu........

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