India, Feb. 25 -- The Centre informed the Punjab and Haryana high court on Tuesday that a 15-member committee, headed by West Tripura MP Biplab Kumar Deb, has been constituted by Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla to examine leave applications of all absent members of Parliament, including Khadoor Sahib MP Amritpal Singh.

During the resumed hearing of Amritpal's petition in which he has sought directions to the Punjab government and the Centre to allow him to attend Parliament, additional solicitor general Satya Pal Jain, accompanied by advocate Dheeraj Jain, told a bench of chief justice Sheel Nagu and justice Sumeet Goel that the committee, formed on February 24, would review the cases of all such MPs.

Amritpal's counsel RS Bains did not appe...