law: Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2000
  12. Bail of
  
  juvenile.-
  1.     
  
    When
  
  any person accused of a bailable or non-bailable offence, and apparently a
  
  juvenile, is arrested or detained or appears or is brought before a board, such
  
  person shall, notwithstanding anything contained in the Code of Criminal
  
  Procedure, 1973 (2 of 1974) or in any other law for the time being in force, be
  
  released on bail with or without surety or placed under the supervision of a
  
  Probation Officer or under the care of any fit institution or fit person but he
  
  shall not be so released if there appear resonable grounds for believing that
  
  the release is likely to bring him into association with any known criminal or
  
  expose him to moral, physical or psychological danger or that this released
  
  would defeat the ends of justice.
  2.     
  
    When
  
  such person having been arrested is not released on bail under sub-section (1)
  
  by the officer incharge of the police station, such officer shall cause him to
  
  be kept only in an observation home in the prescribed manner until he can be
  
  brought before a Board.
  3.     
  
    When
  
  such person is not released on bail under sub-section (1) by the Board it
  
  shall, instead of committing him to prison, make an order sending him to an
  
  observation home or a place of safety for such period during the pendency of
  
  the inquiry regarding him as may be specified in the order.
  Inserted vide Juvenile Justice (Care and
  
  Protection of Children) Amendment Act, 2006, section 10