Chandigarh, Dec. 19 -- The Punjab and Haryana high court on Thursday disposed of a plea from Khadoor Sahib MP Amritpal Singh, seeking parole to attend winter session of Parliament, observing that the petition had "virtually become infructuous".

The bench of chief justice Sheel Nagu and justice Sanjiv Berry noted that the case was listed on a daily basis from December 15. However, could not be taken up due to lawyers abstaining from the work due to which arguing counsels were not available.

It also orally said that assuming the prayer is allowed, it would be extremely difficult to fly Amritpal Singh from Dibrugarh to Delhi and advised counsels of the MP to make representations to the government, well in advance, in case he opts for atten...