Khan Sir and Guru Rahman were neither arrested nor detained, claim Bihar police a day after lathi charge during BPSC protests

It aims at addressing possible variations in the difficulty of different question papers handed out at different shifts of the same exam.

The police denial comes a day after a magistrate posted on duty near the BPSC office had told reporters Friday evening that the two educators had been seen “going with police”, suggesting their brief detention. The two educators also had not come forward to confirm or deny their alleged detention by the police.

Anu Kumari, the sub-divisional police officer at Patna’s Sachivalaya, told the media that the “reports” of Khan Sir and Guru Rahman were “baseless, misleading and provocative”. The police, however, admitted to having detained over half a dozen students.

Khan Sir and Guru Rahman, who run coaching centres in Patna, had joined the protest against BPSC’s reported bid to introduce “normalisation” process in preliminary exams of the BPSC, scheduled on December 13. On Friday evening, as protests escalated, the commission issued a notification that it would not introduce normalisation and would conduct examinations in just one shift according to its advertisement.

About 4.25 lakh students are expected to appear for the BPSC prelims.