India, Nov. 20 -- Chandigarh

Radical Sikh leader and Lok Sabha MP Amritpal Singh has moved the Punjab and Haryana high court seeking temporary release to attend the upcoming winter session of the Parliament.

Amritpal has been under detention at Dibrugarh jail in Assam since his arrest in April 2023 under the National Security Act (NSA) even as his nine other associates were brought back to Punjab earlier this year.

In the plea, he has sought directions to the Union and state authorities to permit his release on parole, or arrange his personal attendance in the Lok Sabha during the winter session. The session is to be held between December 1 and 19.

Amritpal has invoked Section 15 of the NSA, which empowers the competent authority to g...