AYODHYA, May 3 -- An MP/MLA court in Sultanpur on Saturday rejected a plea seeking voice sample of Rahul Gandhi in a defamation case linked to his alleged objectionable remark against Union home minister Amit Shah, and and posted the matter for next hearing on May 11.

Judicial magistrate Shubham Verma of the special MP/MLA court dismissed the application filed by complainant and BJP leader Vijay Mishra, who had sought forensic examination of Gandhi's voice through a laboratory. The court also directed Gandhi, the Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha and Rae Bareli MP, to furnish a bail bond.

In its order, the court observed that there was no requirement for voice sample matching as Gandhi had not denied that the voice in the CD submitt...