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Tarsem Singh faces deportation after arriving in New Zealand on false documents. A fraudulent passport seems to have got a Sikh priest into New Zealand seven years ago. But who arranged for it, and how the priest has been treated since, are the subject of a bitter dispute. National Correspondent Steve Kilgallon investigates. A Sikh priest who came to New Zealand under a false identity says he’s spent the last seven years working as an unpaid dogsbody for a temple trust which has assets worth nearly $25m. Tarsem Singh, who is here under the assumed name Simranjit Singh, alleges senior officials of the Nanaksar gurdwara in Manurewa, south Auckland, organised a fake passport after he was declined a visa under his real name. ....