New Delhi, Delhi, India

The bus conductor first accused of Pradyuman Thakur, a class II student of Ryan International School in Bhondsi, Gurgaon, has been granted bail. 

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Ashok Kumar was given bail by the Gurgaon district court on a bond of Rs 50,000.

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Ashok's lawyer Anil Sharma said "the bail was granted under Article 21 of the constitution. There were lot of differences between findings of CBI and Haryana Police. We were given benefit of doubt."

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The bail has been granted with the bond of 50,000 rupees as the CBI could not submit any evidence against conductor Ashok.

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"We are really happy that Ashok has been granted bail," ANI reported Ashok's father as saying.  

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Seven-year-old Pradyuman had been found dead in the school toilet on September 8. 

Gurgaon Police arrested Ashok on September 8 itself and announced that he was the murderer. 

The case was finally handed over to the CBI on the insistence of Pradyuman's father, who kept insisting the Gurgaon Police was covering something up. 

The CBI recently announced a new suspect -- a class XI boy who had wanted to get an exam and a parent-teacher meeting postponed.  

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