THE president of Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar), Simranjit Singh Mann, has approached the Punjab and Haryana High Court seeking quashing of an FIR, under which, he has been charged with sedition.

The FIR has been registered against organisers of the Sarbat Khalsa (congregation of Sikhs), held at Chabba village on November 10. It states that Mann and the other organisers raised slogans against the nation and passed a number of resolutions including one appointing Jagtar Singh Hawara, convicted for assassination of former Punjab CM Beant Singh, as the Jathedar of the Akal Takht.