The Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear a plea by jailed Punjab MP Amritpal Singh challenging his detention under the National Security Act, Live Law reported.

The bench directed Singh to approach the Punjab and Haryana High Court instead. It also asked the High Court to decide the matter within six weeks.

Singh, who won the June 2024 general election from Punjab’s Khadoor Sahib constituency as an independent candidate, is in Assam’s Dibrugarh jail. He heads the Khalistan separatist outfit Waris Punjab De.

Khalistan is an independent Sikh nation sought by some groups.

Singh told a bench of Justices Aravind Kumar and NV Anjaria that he had been in detention for two and a half years based on a first information report in which a chargesheet has already been filed, Live

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