Tulsi Paswan v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.31868 of 2026 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-525 Year-2025 Thana- KARAKAT District- Rohtas ====================================================== Tulsi Paswan, Son of Gauri Shankar Paswan Resident of Village - Munji, Police Station - Karakat, District - Rohtas.

... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Birendra Kumar, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr. Anil Kumar Singh No. 1, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SHAILENDRA SINGH ORAL ORDER 12-05-2026 Heard the parties.

2. Petitioner seeks regular bail in connection with Karakat P.S. Case No. 525 of 2025 registered for the offences punishable under Sections 191(2), 190, 61(2), 103(1) and 351(3) of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.

3. The main submissions advanced by the petitioner's counsel are that the petitioner is innocent and he has been falsely implicated in the present case and the occurrence is not based on direct eyewitness account rather informant himself stated that he received information from villagers thereafter, reached the place of occurrence and the allegation against the petitioner is general and omnibus in nature without assigning any specific overt act to the petitioner. It is further submitted that similarly, situated co-accused namely, Ravi Paswan, Gauri Shankar Paswan, Pappu Paswan and Deepak Paswan have been

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.31868 of 2026(2) dt.12-05-2026 2/2 found innocent during investigation and the petitioner has been languishing in jail since 07.12.2025 and has clean antecedent.

4. Learned APP for the State has opposed the prayer for bail of the petitioner.

5. Considering the facts and circumstances of the present case, the statements made in the petition, as well as the above submissions, coupled with the petitioner's fair and clean antecedent, his young age, and the fact that during investigation, four co-accused persons named in the FIR, carrying almost similar allegations, have been exonerated by the police, and further considering that, with respect to the petitioner's involvement in the alleged crime, the prosecution is mainly relying upon the petitioner's own confessional statement recorded before the police, as submitted by the learned APP, in my opinion, the petitioner deserves the relief of bail. Accordingly, let the petitioner named-above be released on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 20,000/- (Rupees Twenty Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the concerned Court in connection with Karakat P.S. Case No. 525 of 2025.

(Shailendra Singh, J) maynaz/krishna/- U T