BENGALURU: Karnataka High Court today rejected VHP's plea for a stay on city police commissioner's order banning its leader Praveen Togadia 's entry into the city on grounds of law and order.Justice Abdul Nazir turned down the interim prayer by Karnataka VHP Organising Secretary Keshav Hegde for staying the police commissioner's order banning Togadia's entry into the city from February 5 to 11.City Police Commissioner M N Reddi had earlier this week imposed the ban on the ground that Togadia's "provocative and inflammatory" speeches would have "grave" consequences and likelihood of breach of peace.Challenging this, the state unit filed the petition in the high court with the interim prayer for a stay on the ban.While declining the interim plea, the Judge , however, said the writ petition filed by Hegde was maintainable and adjourned the matter without mentioning the next date of hearing.Justice Nazir also overruled the submissions of B V Acharya, counsel for Hegde, saying that the Police Commissioner had the jurisdiction to pass such an order.Hegde, in his petition, had sought lifting of the ban on entry of Togadia to attend the seven-day convention 'Hindu Viraat Samavesha', which began yesterday, on February 8.He had contended that the order passed by the police has taken irrelevant facts - that occurred in 2002 and 2003 - into consideration, ignoring relevant facts of the recent past, which had not led to any law and order problem.Hegde had argued that the order stood vitiated because it had been passed on the presumption of likelihood of law and order problem due to "inflammatory" speeches of Togadia, though in recent past, there has been no record to prove that his speeches has caused communal disturbance in the state.