Dak Bungalow barricades break: BPSC aspirants want the 70th exam cancelled, police answer with water cannon.

Aspirants in Patna on Tuesday, 25 August 2026, marched from Gandhi Maidan and broke police barricades at the Dak Bungalow crossing. Police used water cannon and detained protesters. One public account said dozens were detained while the march moved toward Raj Bhavan. Gandhi Maidan to Dak Bungalow is the locked route. Raj Bhavan is the destination on that second public account. This desk will not merge a Dak Bungalow break with a Raj Bhavan arrival into a single invented end-point the two writings do not share. A detention is not a conviction. A water cannon is a police step. It is not a finding on the examination.

The demands included cancelling the 70th Bihar Public Service Commission examination over alleged irregularities, a single-tier TRE-4, transparent recruitment, and fair opportunity for Hindi-medium candidates. Those are demands. They are not court orders and they are not a cancelled examination. The All Bihar Students Union is a name locked on this file. Bihar Education Minister Mithilesh Tiwari is the education portfolio on this file. This desk will not invent a quotation for the minister or a membership total for the union.

The State denied a widespread leak in the 2024 test and ordered a re-examination at one centre. A statewide-leak denial and a one-centre re-examination can sit together. They are not a finding that the 70th examination is clean, and they are not a finding that it is compromised. Leak claims remain allegations. This page will not convert a one-centre re-examination into a full-paper cancel, and it will not convert an allegation into a proved leak.

One public account put more than 300,000 candidates in the 2024 examination and 2,000 positions filled. Those two numbers sit on that account. This desk will not invent a 2026 applicant total or a vacancy list the tip does not lock. More than 300,000 and 2,000 are the 2024 book as one desk wrote it. They are not Tuesday’s detention count.

Patna is the geography. Form B and any poll date are not notified. Until a court or the Commission writes a cancel, the public ledger is a Tuesday march from Gandhi Maidan, a barricade break at Dak Bungalow crossing, water cannon, detentions, a second public account of dozens detained toward Raj Bhavan, demands to cancel the 70th Bihar Public Service Commission examination, a single-tier TRE-4, transparent recruitment, Hindi-medium fairness, a State denial of a widespread 2024 leak, a re-examination at one centre, leak claims still alleged, and a 2024 book on one public account of more than 300,000 candidates and 2,000 positions filled. The 70th examination is not cancelled on this page. Guilt is not written.