NEW DELHI: As Punjab police‘s statewide operation to nab Waris Punjab De chief Amritpal Singhentered its fourth day on Tuesday, more details have been released on how the radical pro-Khalistan preacher has managed to stay one step ahead of the authorities.

Police have so far arrested around 15o of Amritpal’s associates and recovered weapons and even seized the car he used but the hunt for Amritpal is still on.

Punjab IG Sukhchain Singh Gill held a press conference on Tuesday to share updates on the case as rumours and fake news abound regarding the incident. The police also released a bunch of photographs on how Amritpal might have changed his looks.

Changed clothes, vehicles
On March 18, when the Punjab police launched its operation to nab Amritpal, the 30-year-old radical preacher was spotted in a Mercedes SUV. The vehicle was stopped by the police but Amritpal managed to escape with the help of his associates.
“During the operation, one check post was set up by a police party of Khilchian police station, District Amritsar (Rural). Amritpal Singh and his associates were travelling in a Mercedes car along with a caravan of three other vehicles,” it said. “They were directed by the police party to stop at the ‘naka’, but instead of stopping their vehicles, the cavalcade broke and escaped from the ‘naka’,” the police said.

A while later, Amritpal allegedly crossed a toll booth in Jalandhar around 11.27 am. He was sitting in the front seat of a Maruti Brezza.
The Mercedes SUV was quickly abandoned by Amritpal and it was found on the side a road in Shahkot. Some clothes were also found inside the vehicle.
The Maruti vehicle has now also been recovered by the police along with some clothes that might have been worn by Amritpal. “The Brezza car, in which Amritpal Singh fled, has been recovered by the police. He was helped by four people. We recovered the vehicle, one rifle and other equipment,” said the Punjab IGP.

Gill said Amritpal eventually went to some Gurdwara, changed his clothes there and left on a bike.
“We have recovered the car which was used by Amritpal to escape. After escaping, Amritpal went to a Gurdwara in Nangal Ambian, where he changed his attire and left on a bike. This came to be known in questioning of the 4 people who have been nabbed,” said Gill.
Amritpal has links to ISI: Punjab IGP
Gill said evidence has been collected to show that Amritpal has links to Pakistani intelligence agency ISI.
He further reiterated that the situation in Punjab is stable and that CM Bhagwant Mann is monitoring the situation and taking regular feedback.

Responding to reports that Amritpal has already been arrested but is not being produced in the court, Gill said: “The police are working as per law. People have suspicions, but the prime accused (Amritpal Singh) has not been arrested yet. As soon as the arrest is made, we will inform you.”
The Punjab Police has invoked National Security Act (NSA) against Amritpal Singh and a non-bailable warrant was issued against him on March 18. Arms Act has been invoked against the four people who helped him.
(With inputs from agencies)

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The Credit Suisse Group AG crisis is likely to make a dent on the way well-off Indians view international wealth managers, a firm backed by Liechtenstein’s royal family said Tuesday.
Rajesh Cheruvu, chief investment officer and managing director at LGT Wealth India Private Ltd., said in the past 15 years or so, many multinational financial institutions have come and exited Indian markets and the latest incident was making wealthy investors nervous.
“This particular event once again reminds and recalls the past uncertainty in terms of their business strategies,” Cheruvu told Bloomberg Television. “Investors primarily want stability of business operations of their wealth managers and wealth advisors.”
This year, Citigroup Inc exited its retail operations in India through a sale to Axis Bank, transferring all its wealth management business to the country’s third-largest private sector lender.

In addition, in the past decade, Credit Suisse’s new buyer — UBS AG, Morgan Stanley and Macquarie Group Ltd. have exited the country’s private-wealth business, after finding it difficult to make money from the value-conscious millionaires who were not used to pay for their advice.
Nevertheless, the volume of wealth creation as India grows and changing attitudes towards professional fund management have enticed some money managers back as they seek to capture a slice of the country’s $600 billion wealth industry that is growing at double digits annually.
HSBC Holdings Plc, plans to launch an onshore private banking service in India to tap its wealthy while Julius Baer Group Ltd. aims to expand to more locations in the next five years.
“Structurally India is offering a great growth opportunity for the next three, five, seven years. So we are actually suggesting to investors to use this ongoing nervousness in the market place and volatility to their benefit to construct a portfolio for the longer term,” Cheruvu said.

NEW DELHI: Apple Inc is seeking changes in India’s labor laws as part of its effort to expand local production, and regional governments are yielding to its request as they are eager to snatch iPhone assembly from China.
Tamil Nadu state, where Apple’s top supplier Foxconn Technology Group operates the nation’s largest iPhone plant, is considering passing new rules that will make factory shifts more flexible, people familiar with the matter said.
Executives from Apple and the Indian Cellular and Electronics Association lobby group — which represents the US company as well its suppliers such as Foxconn, Pegatron Corp and Wistron Corp — met with state government officials over six months to push for the reforms, the people said, asking not to be named as the discussions were private. The planned changes would bring local working hours on par with the iPhone factories in China, they said.
The moves are part of Apple’s effort to shift more production away from China to countries including India. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s local manufacturing push, financial incentives and India’s relatively cheaper labor have led Foxconn, Pegatron and Wistron to ramp up in the South Asian nation.
Representatives for Apple, Foxconn and the Tamil Nadu government didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment. Pegatron and Wistron representatives declined to comment.
“India wants to have global brands like Apple make the country a home for manufacturing and research and development,” India’s deputy technology minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar told Bloomberg News. “The federal government is liaising closely with states to develop competitive policies such as the labor, logistics and infrastructure, which will help accelerate the shift of electronics supply chain to India.”
Labor law reforms in India are rare, and the country’s willingness to now accommodate Apple underscores how badly it wants to become an electronics manufacturing hub. The suggested changes include allowing more overtime and permitting factories to operate two shifts of 12 hours each, instead of the previous three shifts that each went on for eight hours.
The envisioned changes could also encourage more women to work in factories. By having more flexible shifts, women could avoid commuting on night buses — often seen as an unsafe option. Apple and its suppliers are also in talks to build large working women’s hostels in and around factory complexes, which would reduce travel time, two of the people said.
Foxconn, Pegatron and Wistron together employ nearly 60,000 workers in India. A significant part of that number are women, aged between 19 and 24.
“In electronics manufacturing, thanks to the hygienic environment and the roles in the units, women are a natural fit,” ICEA said in the 36-page recommendation document it submitted to the Tamil Nadu government, which was seen by Bloomberg News. “Women have superior manual dexterity, which is necessary for high-precision electronics assembly.”
The state of Karnataka, which houses Wistron’s iPhone plant and where Foxconn is set to build a new $700 million facility, passed legislation in recent weeks to allow for labor rule changes. Financial Times earlier reported about Apple’s lobbying in the state.
Other Indian states such as Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh, home to Samsung Electronics Co’s smartphone factory, will also possibly follow Karnataka and Tamil Nadu, two of the people told Bloomberg News.