PRAYAGRAJ, Sept. 26 -- The Allahabad high court on Friday dismissed Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha and Congress MP Rahul Gandhi's plea against an order of the Varanasi MP/MLA court over the Congress leader's remarks in the United States in relation to the Sikh community.

The Varanasi MP/MLA court had directed the court of the additional chief judicial magistrate to hear afresh an application seeking the registration of an FIR against Rahul Gandhi for his purported statement on Sikhs made during a visit to the United States last year.

The order was passed by Justice Sameer Jain, who had heard a criminal revision filed by the Congress MP. One Nageshwar Mishra of Varanasi had filed an application before the court of additional chief jud...