India, Nov. 5 -- The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to entertain the plea of a Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress faction leader seeking direction to the Speaker of the West Bengal Assembly to expeditiously decide the disqualification plea against rebel party MLAs and asked him to approach the high court.

A bench of Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi disposed of the plea filed by Sobhandeb Chattopadhyay and asked him to approach the Calcutta High Court.

It urged the Calcutta High Court chief justice to place the matter before the division bench for hearing.

The bench ordered, "It seems to us that the petitioner has to take recourse to the Calcutta High Court. We accordingly dispose of this petition at this stag...