The Supreme Court today dismissed a plea filed by a US researcher challenging the Delhi High Court verdict acquitting Peepli Live' co-director Mahmood Farooqui in an alleged rape case.<br/><br/>Farooqui was earlier convicted and sentenced to seven years jail term by a trial court in New Delhi in August 2016. However, the high court had allowed Farooqui's appeal last year and had acquitted him in the case.<br/><br/>