The Supreme Court on Monday turned down Kashmiri separatist Shabir Ahmed Shah’s plea seeking a direction to NIA for supply detention orders against him, saying that he could approach the Jammu and Kashmir Government for it.

“Did you ever ask them to provide those orders to you or you’re asking before us for the first time? You should have asked the government to provide you (documents). Why in bail proceedings? You ask the government to provide you the details,” a bench of Justice Vikram Nath and Justice Sandeep Mehta told senior counsel Colin Gonsalves, who represented Shah.

Solicitor General Tushar Mehta objected to Shah’s demand, saying successive governments detained the separatist leader for his “association with Pakistan” for different time periods and NIA did not have those 55-yea

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