Overview
- After a detailed hearing, a bench of Chief Justice Sheel Nagu and Justice Sanjiv Berry disposed of the case with directions to decide his November 13 request within a week, preferably before the December 1–19 winter session, and to communicate the outcome to him.
- The court instructed Punjab to treat Amritpal Singh’s representation as a formal application after the state said only a representation had been submitted.
- Judges asked his counsel what subjects he planned to raise in the Lok Sabha, framing the plea around an MP’s duties alongside the request for temporary release.
- Singh seeks temporary release under Section 15 of the NSA and cites his escorted four-day visit to take oath in July 2024 and a co-detainee’s parole for last rites as examples of permitted temporary movement.
- He remains in Dibrugarh Central Jail under an NSA order issued by the Amritsar district magistrate and extended in April 2025, with the Union government and Assam authorities named as respondents along with Punjab.