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

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 police actions.

The case stems from a violent incident when the group allegedly gathered outside the coaching institute on June 2 and later vandalised the premises, pelted stones and assaulted one of the institute’s security guards Chun Chun Kumar. In its aftermath, an FIR was registered at Kadamkuan police station under various provisions of the BNS, including attempt to murder, and offences under the Arms Act.

A rival coaching institute owner, Raushan Anand, along with two others were arrested in the case by Patna police on June 2 and sent to jail. Their bail plea, though, was rejected by a local court in Patna on June 9.

On June 4, police arrested the two security guards attached to the KGS coaching institute and lodged an FIR against Mr. Khan as well. Challenging the legality of the FIR and the criminal proceedings initiated against him, Mr. Khan sought judicial intervention from the High Court.

Reacting to the incident, Bihar Education Minister Mithilesh Tiwari had earlier said: “The State government would formulate a policy within the next three months to prevent such rivalry among coaching institutes and to disturb the law and order situation.”