Chandigarh, July 22 -- The Punjab and Haryana high court has given four weeks' time to Congress leader, Randeep Singh Surjewala, to provide material regarding his threat perception to authorities.

The order was passed by the high court bench of justice Kuldeep Tiwari on an application moved by the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) in which it had told court that a fresh threat perception assessment has been carried out and "it does not indicate any specific threat perception" to him. Hence, the government proposes to withdraw the central forces security cover provided to him, Central government senior panel counsel Arun Gosain had told the court.

Responding to this, Surjewala's counsel had stated that the Congress leader is still facing th...