Chandigarh, Jan. 23 -- A Punjab and Haryana high court judge on Thursday recused from hearing the petition filed by National Security Act (NSA) detainee and Khadoor Sahib MP Amritpal Singh, seeking directions to the Punjab government to allow him to attend the forthcoming budget session of the Parliament. The petition was listed for hearing before the bench of chief justice Sheel Nagu and justice Sanjiv Berry. After a brief hearing, justice Sanjiv Berry decided to recuse from hearing the case. No reason has been assigned for the same in the order released on Thursday evening. Now, a special bench presided over by the chief justice and justice Archana Puri would hear the matter on Friday. Having won the 2024 Lok Sabha polls from Khadoor Sahib, Amritpal Singh has been out on parole once to attend the Parliament on July 5, 2024, when he was administered the oath of office. In February 2025, he sought parole to attend the Parliament session, which was not allowed. In December 2025, he moved the high court challenging the Punjab government's decision not to grant him parole to attend the winter session, citing potential law and order issues. However, the petition could not be decided, and by that time, the session ended. Now, the Waris Punjab De chief, who has been in Dibrugarh jail since 2023, has filed a fresh plea stating that he has submitted a representation before the Punjab authorities on January 17 seeking parole to attend the budget session. The petition seeks directions to the Punjab government to allow him parole to attend the Parliament and make necessary arrangements for that. The budget session is slated to take place in two phases-from January 28 to February 13 and from March 9 to April 2. "The present petitioner wants to represent the people of his Khadoor Sahib constituency before the Parliament and also to highlight the various issues faced by the people of his constituency in the true spirit of democracy and in consonance with the constitution of India," the petition says. The petition says the detention order is politically motivated, passed with the malafide intent of silencing the petitioner, who is an elected Member of Parliament representing 19 lakh constituents. His continued detention undermines democratic rights and the will of the electorate, it claims. The radical Sikh preacher won the Khadoor Sahib seat with 1.9 lakh votes as an Independent in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls. He has been under detention at Dibrugarh jail in Assam since his arrest in April 2023 under the NSA. Nine of his associates were brought back to Punjab in March-April last year. But in his case third detention order was passed for one more year by the Amritsar district magistrate....