PRAYAGRAJ, June 26 -- The Allahabad high court on Wednesday dismissed a plea filed by Abbas Ansari in a 2022 hate speech case. Justice Samit Gopal dismissed the petition challenging the forensic report related to audio of alleged hate speech. The petition was dismissed as infructuous after the trial pending before district court concluded. Ansari is charged with sharing the dais in a rally in Mau district in 2022 where his brother allegedly threatened government officials with payback, after election results. Mau police, in March 2022, had booked the Ansari brothers under Section 171F (offence of undue influence at an election) and 506 (criminal intimidation) of IPC, after a video of the speech went viral on social media during the election campaign....