India, June 10 -- A shopkeeper in Bengal's East Midnapore district was arrested on Sunday in connection with last month's suicide of a 13-year-old boy after being accused of stealing a packet of potato chips, police said.

The shopkeeper, identified by the police as Subhankar Dikshit, was arrested over a fortnight after a 13-year-old boy died by suicide within hours of his humiliation for allegedly stealing a packet of chips.

"Subhankar Dikshit, who owns the shop, was produced before the Tamluk court on Monday and remanded in police custody for 14 days," a district police official said on condition of anonymity.

The first information report (FIR) against Dikshit, also a civic police volunteer, was lodged at Panskura, the police station ...