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An Australian court granted conditional bail to one of the teenagers accused in the assault case of Manrajwinder Singh, after the boy said that he was helping the police in the case. The 16-year-old teenager was granted bail on the condition that he would stay away from the co-accused and observe night curfew at home, reported The Age newspaper. The boy appeared at the children's court for a brief period and agreed to the conditions before his parents.

Bail for the teenager was granted a day after another accused, a 17-year-old, was remanded in custody over the attack and robbing of 20-year-old Manrajwinder Singh, who is still in a state of induced coma at the Alfred hospital. The 16-year-old boy will later in the month return to court. In the case five other youths, that includes two brothers of the 17-year-old teenager, are yet to be arrested for questioning.

Singh was thrashed by eight persons, who were reportedly African in appearance, when he and his two other friends were at Birrarung Marr near Princes Bridge to board a train last Sunday. The Indian accounts student suffered severe head injuries in the assault.

(AW: Pratima Tigga)