The Punjab and Haryana High Court Friday directed the Punjab Government to decide, within a week, the representation filed by Khadoor Sahib MP Amritpal Singh seeking temporary release from Dibrugarh Central Jail in Assam to attend the Winter Session of Parliament beginning December 1.

A Division Bench of Chief Justice Sheel Nagu and Justice Sanjiv Berry passed the direction after a detailed hearing on the petition moved under Section 15 of the National Security Act (NSA). Amritpal, detained in Assam since April 2023 under a preventive detention order issued by the Amritsar district magistrate, is in the third year of his incarceration.

At the outset, the bench examined the representations Amritpal Singh had made to multiple authorities , including the Lok Sabha Secretariat, Union Min

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