Patna: Juvenile justice board principal magistrate S.K. Chandhariyavi on Monday granted a 14-year-old vegetable seller regular bail in connection with a motorcycle theft case in which he has been allegedly framed because he refused to give jackfruits to the cops for free.

However, the boy will remain in a remand home because two other cases are pending against him with the Agamkuan police station in Patna City.

The board had last Saturday declared the arrested vegetable seller as a juvenile.

On the direction of member secretary of Bihar State Legal Services Authority Sunil Dutt Mishra, panel advocate of the legal service centre of the juvenile justice board Ramakant Prasad Verma filed the boy's bail petition last Saturday. The Bypass police also submitted an application, saying that the supervision report of senior police officers in the case says there were several loose ends in the police case and they have not got any evidence against the boy.

Advocate Verma argued the board that the boy is minor and not arrested from the place as shown in the FIR. He was picked up from his house. No motorcycle was recovered from his possession either.

Chief minister Nitish Kumar had ordered a probe into allegations from the boy's father, Sukan Paswan, that the boy had been arrested because he had refused to give the police jackfruit for free.

Inspector-general of police (Patna Zone) Nayyar Hasnain khan submitted the probe report to the director-general of police, accepting that there were several loose points in the police case.

The Bypass police had submitted the charge-sheet in the case without the supervision of the deputy superintendent of police.

After the probe findings came to light, 12 police personnel have been suspended for wrongful arrest and confinement of the boy.

The boy was arrested on March 20 this year.