Patna: The minor boy, who was sent to jail because he had reportedly refused to give vegetable for free to policemen, was finally released on Thursday from the remand home in connection with two criminal cases.

The allegations against the boy was recovery of a motorcycle from his possession and planning a loot in a case connected with Bypass police station in Patna City. Also a theft charge was slapped against him in another case connected with Agamkuan police station in Patna City.

On the directive of member secretary Sunil Dutt Mishra of Bihar Legal Services Authority, panel advocate of Legal Service Centre on the juvenile justice board campus at Gaighat in Patna City, Ramakant Prasad Verma, had filed bail petitions on behalf of the minor accused in the cases.

Advocate Verma pleaded the bail petition and told the board that the minor was implicated falsely in both the cases and that s#ome Patna police officials used to take vegetables without paying the boy.

One day the boy had refused to give vegetables without money to the police. This was the cause of implication of the boy in the two cases.

Advocate Verma also told the court that the boy has also been implicated in another case connected with Agamkuan police station but he was not remanded in the third case, so there is no need to file a bail petition in the third case. Verma argued that chief minister Nitish Kumar had ordered a probe into the case and then inspector-general of police (Patna) Nayyar Hasnain Khan, who submitted the probe report to the director-general of police, accepted that the boy was implicated in a false case.

The prosecution did not oppose the bail petition.

After hearing the bail petition, the principal magistrate of the juvenile justice board S.K. Chandraiyavi had granted the minor bail on July 2 related to Bypass police case, and the minor accused was granted regular bail on Thursday connected with the Agamkuan police station case.