The Bureau of Immigration (BI) announced the arrest of an Indian-Nepalese national tagged by authorities in New Delhi as a ranking leader of a separatist terror group and a wanted criminal in India.
BI Commissioner Norman Tansingco disclosed that Joginder Geong, 41, was arrested Monday at his residence in Barangay Taculing, Bacolod City, Negros Occidental by operatives from the BI’s fugitive search unit (FSU) headed by Rendel Ryan Sy.
Geong is known to use several aliases including Joginder Geyong and Kanta Gupta.
Tansingco said he issued a mission order for Geong’s arrest at the request of the Indian government which informed the BI about his alleged involvement in criminal activities and terrorism in their country.
“Indian authorities have described him as a notorious criminal with a history of serious offenses including murder, extortion, and robbery,” the BI chief said.
He bared that Geong is suspected of heading an organized crime syndicate, and was sentenced to life imprisonment for firearms possession cases in India.
Geong is also believed to have links to the Khalistani terror group which has waged an armed separatist rebellion with the aim of establishing an independent Sikh state in Punjab province, India, Tansingco said.
“He will be deported for being an undesirable, undocumented, and illegally staying alien whose presence here amounts to a blatant violation of our immigration laws,” he added.
Sy said Geong is now detained at the BI warden facility in Camp Bagong Diwa, Taguig City pending deportation proceedings.
