PRAYAGRAJ, Nov. 6 -- The Allahabad high court on Thursday dismissed a petition challenging a Varanasi court order that rejected an application seeking registration of an FIR against Leader of the Opposition (LoP) in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, over his remarks on the Sikh community during his September 2024 visit to the United States. Dismissing the petition filed by Nageshwar Mishra and another on Thursday, Justice Vikram D Chauhan observed that an elected representative had the right to raise concerns about sections of society and that questioning the rights of minorities could not, by itself, constitute an offence. "The second respondent, Rahul Gandhi, being an elected representative, has a right to raise concerns in respect of society. Further, questioning the rights of minorities by elected representatives by itself cannot be an offence and the said speech of Rahul Gandhi will have protection of freedom of speech and expression under Article 19 of the Constitution," the court observed. The court said that an elected representative raising concerns on foreign soil might be viewed by some as improper or a departure from parliamentary tradition, but that alone did not make the speech an offence....