Stressing grave constitutional wrong, Lucknow lawyer pushes for release of Chinese national languishing in U.P. Jail after prison term

A Lucknow lawyer on Thursday (April 24, 2026) raised administrative and diplomatic lapses that is currently forcing a Chinese national to languish unlawfully in the Lakhimpur Kheri district prison more than two months after his sentence expired and volunteered to personally fund the individual Wang Gou Jun’s return flight to Guangzhou, China, in case that is the impediment to his release and consequent deportation to China.

The lawyer said the detention of any person beyond his lawfully served sentence, without fresh legal authority, constitutes a grave constitutional wrong.

“Through social media, I come to know, Wang Gou Jun, a national of the People’s Republic of China, has completed his entire court-ordered sentence of three years in District Jail, Lakhimpur Kheri, Uttar Pradesh in February 2026, yet remains behind bars, not by any judicial order, but through sheer administrative inertia. I never represented him, and has no personal stake in the outcome have mooted a representation, purely by conscience and our ancient Indian ideal of Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam (the world is one family), and have taken to myself, the endeavor to secure this foreign national’s release. On the request of the Administrative Authorities of District Lakhimpur Kheri, I have also volunteered to personally fund Wang Goujun’s return flight to Guangzhou, China, in case that is the impediment to his release and consequent deportation to China,” said Syed Mohammad Haider Rizvi, an advocate based in Lucknow.