Notorious gangster Surinder Geong killed in police encounter

Parveen Arora

Tribune News Service

Karnal, April 8

A notorious gangster who was sentenced to a life term for a murder and who jumped parole was shot dead in an encounter near Karnal’s Rahra village on Saturday.

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Surinder Geong, a resident of Geong village in Kaithal district who faces 30 cases of serious criminal charges — murder, banditry, and extortion among them — whom police were seeking after he jumped parole, was killed in an encounter that lasted 20 minutes. Three of his accomplices however escaped.

Geong was released on parole on May 23, 2016, after he claimed he needed it to have his house in Rohtak repaired, and went missing soon after.

Acting on a report, police surrounded Geong, who was wearing in police's khakhi turban and brown shoes, and three other people accompanying him in a car at Rahra village.

Two police uniforms, an I-card bearing Haryana Police's logo with the name Surinder Sheoran and a police belt found in the gangster's possession.

Police found two pistols, some cartridges and one car from the encounter site, Karnal Superintendent of Police Jashandeep Singh Randhawa said.

He said the report said that the Geong’s gang was travelling in three cars. Police are currently searching the area.

Congress spokesperson Randeep Singh Surjewala had approached Punjab and Haryana High Court for security after Geong jumped parole.

Police claimed Geong continued his extortion activities from behind bars.

Geong was accused of murdering Narinder Arora, a plywood dealer in Kaithal, in March 2006. He escaped to South Africa but was extradited to India in 2008 and convicted in the case in 2014.