India, Jan. 12 -- The Patna high court has directed the release of a 15-year-old boy wrongfully held in a land dispute case as an adult in Bihar's Madhepura, Rs.5 lakh compensation for him, and a probe into the matter. The order was passed on Friday and uploaded on Sunday.

The court directed the Bihar police chief to institute the inquiry and get the compensation from the erring officials within six months.

The order came on a habeas corpus seeking the release of the boy from illegal detention. The plea alleged the investigating officer in the case arrested him in complete disregard of the powers of arrest and without following the established procedure.

The boy was arrested in November before he was found to be a 15-year-old. "For his...