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.
The suspect, identified as 41-year-old Joginder Geong, was arrested at his residence in Barangay Taculing, Bacolod City, Negros Occidental by operatives from the BI’s fugitive search unit (FSU) Monday, July 8.
Geong, who also used the aliases Joginder Geyong and Kanta Gupta, was nabbed by virtue of a mission order issued by BI Commissioner Norman Tansingco at the request of the Indian government.
“Indian authorities have described him as a notorious criminal with a history of serious offenses including murder, extortion, and robbery,” Tansingco reported.
Geong is suspected of heading an organized crime syndicate, and was sentenced to life imprisonment for firearms possession cases in India.
He 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.
Geong is now detained at the BI warden facility in Camp Bagong Diwa, Taguig City pending deportation proceedings.
“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,” the BI chief said.
#WeTakeAStand #OpinYon #OpinYonNews #BureauofImmigration #BIFSU