A Chinese national was today released from a prison in Bihar's Araria district after serving out partial imprisonment for entering India without valid travel documents.
Complying with the Sub-Divisional Judicial Magistrate (SDJM) Shashi Bhushan Tripathi's order yesterday for Zhou Wei's conditional release that he will leave India within next 72 hours, Divisional jail authorities set him free and handed over to the Chinese Embassy officials who left for New Delhi with him.
A Patna high court judge justice Ahsanuddin Amanullah had, through an order dated September four, directed Zhou's release on the condition that he must confess to his crime of making an unlawful entry into India before a lower court in order to be entitled to release on the ground that the days spent by him in jail will be deemed as completion of term of imprisonment.
The Chinese national was also directed to give an undertaking to the jail administration that he will leave the country within 72 hours of his release from the jail.
By taking into account the orders of the Patna high court as well as of the SDJM, Zhou has been released from jail and handed over to the Chinese Embassy officials, the Araria divisional jail superintendent A K Jha told PTI.
The Chinese national was arrested from Jogbani police station area by immigration officials on July 18 last year after he was found to have entered India from Nepal without proper travel documents.
