Chandigarh, April 20 -- The Punjab and Haryana high court has allowed the Punjab government to keep radical Sikh leader and Khadoor Sahib MP Amritpal Singh in Assam's Dibrugarh jail post the National Security Act (NSA) detention period in the event of his arrest in the 2023 Ajnala violence case.

Acting on a plea filed by the Punjab government, the bench of chief justice Sheel Nagu and justice Sanjiv Berry said there were "sufficient reasons for this court to be satisfied that exceptional circumstances of live and proximate danger of breach of public order exist, in case he physically attends the trial court at Amritsar".

Amritpal's third NSA detention, which started on April 23, 2025, ends on April 22.

The high court order, passed on F...