Teacher held on charge of vehicle lifter

The chemistry teacher of a Patna college have been arrested on charge of being the mastermind of a gang of vehicle lifters.

Police said Amarnath Gupta, a chemistry teacher of the Guru Gobind Singh College, was arrested by a police team from state's Kaimur district from his Rajendra Nagar residence here yesterday. Another person Girija Kesri was also apprehended from the city.

The arrests were made in the wake of one Raju Kumar lodging an FIR with the Mohania police station in Kaimur district alleging Gupta and Kesri sold him a vehicle with fake documents.

The complainant said he returned the vehicle on discovery that the chassis number did not match the one mentioned in the document. However, he failed to get his money back despite repeated pleas, the FIR said.

Superintendent of police, Kaimur, PK Srivastava said the police were probing if Keshri and Gupta had links with other vehicle lifter gangs.

Patna university expels student

Patna university has expelled a BBA Part I student of Bihar National College for abusing a girl student.

The university disciplinary committee headed by its Vice Chancellor Shyam Lal met here yesterday and decided to expel the student both from the college and the hostel.

The committee also suspended three students of Patna College -- Santan Raj, Ram Kishore Paswan and Niranjan Kumar, mass communiation students --- for one month for creating nuisance on the campus.link

Patna College to hold alumni meet

Patna College, the oldest institution of higher education in Bihar, is going to publish its Alumni's Who's Who soon. The publication would include the full details of all its alumni located at different places and occupying positions of eminence in public life.

College principal Ras Bihari Prasad Singh told here on Friday that the college would be holding its alumni meet on May 31 after a lapse of over 12 years. The last alumni meet was held in 1996. Former Lt General and governor S K Sinha, former director of higher education Damodar Thakur and several other distinguished alumni are likely to grace the occasion, he added.

Meanwhile, the teachers and students of the college, at a meeting held here on Friday under the presidentship of the principal, expressed their deep sense of shock over the sudden demise of former head of philosophy department, PU, P N Bhagat. Patna University Teachers' Association president Dharm Prakash and general secretary Randhir Kumar Singh and PU dean of students' welfare K N Paswan also attended the meeting. link