Manila Two Indian nationals who were thought to be part of an outlawed Sikh separatist group have been deported from the Philippines, a government agency announced on Friday.

In March, Philippine authorities detained three Indian men believed to be members of the Khalistan Tiger Force, a ferocious group fighting for an independent Sikh state called Khalistan. The international police organisation Interpol published a red notice that listed their names.

They were in the country at the same time as a massive manhunt for Amritpal Singh, a Sikh preacher who earlier this year revived calls for the creation of Khalistan in the Punjab region of northern India, a region with a violent insurgency history. Singh was detained at the end of April.

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According to the Cybercrime Investigation and Coordinating Centre, the KTF men arrested in the Philippines were accused of murder and entered the nation using fake passports.

Despite a desperate attempt to flee, two Indian nationals who are believed to be members of the terrorist group Khalistan Tiger Force were deported last night, according to a statement from the CICC.

In addition, the Philippine Bureau of Immigration, the National Intelligence Coordinating Agency, and the police attache of the Indian Embassy in Manila escorted the men onto a Thai Airways flight from Manila to New Delhi via Bangkok.

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The third KTF suspect remained in the Philippines because he was still being tried for extortion, according to Alexander Ramos, executive director of the CICC, who spoke to Arab News. There are probably more militant group members in the nation of Southeast Asia. They are still at large, says Ramos.

The group still has members in the nation, he claimed. "We are first confirming their true identity. When they entered the nation, they used false identities.

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In India, the Khalistan movement is forbidden. From the middle of the 1980s to the middle of the 1990s, it waged an armed campaign that sparked a contentious military operation that claimed the lives of hundreds of people.