Violent protests across Bihar over Board results

The protests over the Bihar School Examination Board (BSEB)'s poor Intermediate exam results for 2017 spread across the state on Friday with students in several districts hitting the roads to demand re-evaluation.

While at least four students have committed suicide over poor marks, several more are now threatening to follow suit if the BSEB does not "rectify" their results.

This year, 7.94 lakh of the 12.4 lakh, or 64% students, who wrote the Class XII exams in Bihar, have failed to clear it.

Violent protests were reported from some districts on Friday, the third day after the declaration of the results, with students blocking national and state highways, burning effigies of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and state education minister Ashok Choudhary. At several places, police had to resort to a lathi charge.