The Bureau of Immigration (BI) has arrested an Indian-Nepalese national who has been identified by authorities in New Delhi as a ranking leader of a separatist terror group and a wanted criminal in India.
Operatives from the BI Fugitive Search Unit arrested Joginder Geong, 41, at his residence in Barangay Taculing, Bacolod City on Monday, July 8, Immigration Commissioner Norman Tansingco said.
Geong goes by several aliases, including “Joginder Geyong” and “Kanta Gupta.”
In a press statement, Tansingco said that he issued a mission order for Geong’s arrest at the request of the Indian government, citing his alleged involvement in criminal and terrorist activities 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.
According to him, Geong is suspected of leading an organized crime syndicate and was sentenced to life in prison for firearms possession in India.
He may also have ties to the Khalistani terror group, which has been waging an armed separatist rebellion to establish an independent Sikh state in Punjab province, said Tansingco.
“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.
Geong is now detained at the BI warden facility in Camp Bagong Diwa, Taguig City while awaiting deportation.IMT
