LUCKNOW, Aug. 26 -- The MP/MLA court in Uttar Pradesh's Bareilly district has rejected an application seeking lodging of a case against All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi for taking oath in the 18th session of Lok Sabha in which he ended with the words "Jai Palestine".

Owaisi had ended the oath taking with the words, "Jai Bhim, Jai Meem, Jai Telangana, Jai Palestine". Additional district judge Devashish, who is the special judge MP/MLA court, rejected the application of local lawyer Virendra Pal Gupta on August 14.

Passing the order, the court listed out instances mentioned in section 2 of the Prevention of Insults to National Honour Act, 1971. This section has listed out actions that ...