Hundreds of angry students blocked roads in Bazaar Samiti, Pathar Ki Masjid, Kankerbagh, Kadamkuan and Rajendra Nagar localities, pelted stones at the coaching institutions and vehicles.
One person was killed and 10 others, including policemen, were injured after students went on a rampage demanding action against some private coaching centres which they claimed had allegedly duped them.
The victim, who succumbed to injuries at a hospital, was accidentally fired upon by a guard posted in front of a institute, police said. Three policemen were injured in the stone pelting and lathicharge, they said, adding three students have been seriously injured.
Trouble erupted when a large number of students went on the rampage demanding action against the institutes for allegedly duping them. Hundreds of agitated students blocked roads in Bazaar Samiti, Pathar Ki Masjid, Kankerbagh, Kadamkuan and Rajendra Nagar localities, police said.
They also pelted stones at the coaching institutions and vehicles, demanding shutting down of the centres, police said, adding that they had to resort to mild lathicharge. Teargas shells were fired to disperse the agitators, who had set police motorcycles on fire, after police failed to control the situation.
Yesterday, the students had blocked the Bazaar Samiti Road and demonstrated in front of coaching centres alleging that their owners had duped them under the pretext of conducting courses.
A CRPF constable, who had suffered head injuries during the protest at Rajendra Nagar locality last evening, today died at the Patna Medical College Hospital, they added. Senior superintendent of police Vinit Vinayak said that the situation was now "normal'.
When contacted, chief minister Nitish Kumar said he had ordered an official probe into the incident. The State Human Resource Department has been asked to formulate a policy for regulating the functioning of coaching institutes to ensure proper and quality teaching in Bihar, he said.
Opposition RJD chief Lalu Prasad alleged that the state government was responsible for the agitation and alleged that the police had lathicharged and opened fire to quell it. Vinayak, however, denied that the police had fired to disperse the students.
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