Two days after Lok Sabha member Amritpal Singh moved the Punjab and Haryana High Court seeking temporary release from jail to attend the winter session of Parliament from December 1 to 19, a Division Bench today directed the state government to decide his plea “within a week” “preferably” before the session commenced.

“The present petition stands disposed of with a direction to the Home Secretary, Department of Home Affairs and Justice, to decide the application dated November 13 already filed by the petitioner within a week from today, preferably before the commencement of the winter session of Parliament and to communicate the order to the petitioner,” the Bench said.

Detained at Dibrugarh Central Jail under the National Security Act (NSA), the Khadoor Sahib MP had invoked Section 15 o

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