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Joginder Geong and his brother Surender Geong (killed in police action) were behind several criminal activities in Haryana, Punjab, Rajasthan and Delhi NCR
Joginder’s location, movements and activities were tracked by the special cell. (CNN-News18)
In a major milestone of active collaboration between Delhi and Haryana Police forces, gangster Joginder Geong, who is booked in at least 24 cases, has been brought to the country from the Philippines.
The Delhi Police’s special cell had been closely monitoring the developments of emerging nexus of joining of hands between Kaushal Chaudhary and Davinder Bambhia crime syndicates.
This access to Bambhia’s network was facilitating criminal exchanges of Kaushal Chaudhary with Pro Khalistani Elements (PKEs) sitting abroad, particularly Lucky Patial and Arsh Dalla, who are running an active module of Khalistan Tiger Force (KTF), a banned terrorist organization.
The cell identified one Joginder Geong alias Joga Don as a critical off-shore node in manpower and logistics network fuelling this terror-crime nexus.
Joginder Geong and his brother Surender Geong (killed in police action), a hardcore criminal of Haryana, had carried out many criminal activities in Haryana, Punjab, Rajasthan and Delhi NCR.
Joginder’s location, movements and activities were tracked by the special cell in Philippines and the detailed intelligence was shared with Haryana Police, which provided actionable inputs and, thereafter, joint request was placed before Central Agencies for getting Geong detained and deported back to India from his hiding place in Bacold City, Philippines, where he had assumed a fake ID.
With focussed efforts, the criminal has been brought back to India and, subsequently arrested on the night intervening 1-2 Feb, 2025.
EXTORTION TO TERRORISM, LINK TO ARSH DALLA
Accused Joginder Geong had spread his tentacles in the areas of Karnal, Panipat, Kaithal etc. and was attempting to re-establish a network for extorting money from doctors, contractors, liquor vendors and other financially well-off businessmen.
His involvement with terror-criminal nexus is evident from the fact that even after his first deportation from South Africa in the year 2007, and subsequent release from jail, he again fled to the Philippines by managing a new identity, suspected to have been facilitated by trans-national terror networks.
After settling down in the Philippines, he re-organised his gang and started his criminal enterprise and, further got fully involved in the terror network of Arsh Dalla, a designated and wanted terrorist of KTF.
The Bambhia syndicate, being currently operated by wanted fugitive Lucky Patial, also came on board, having fraternal relationship with Kaushal Chaudhary’s syndicate and soon, Joginder Geong rose to be a key planner and organiser of manpower, harbouring fugitives, moving narcotics and weapons as a logistical hub to facilitate the activities of these criminal networks, which committed sensational killings of Ex- SOPU President Vicky Midhukhera, Gurlal Brar and noted Kabaddi player Sandeep Nangal Ambia in the recent years.