Bengaluru : The Karnataka High Court has refused to grant bail to a man accused in a rape case, invoking a verse from Manusmriti pertaining to respecting women and a remark by Mahatma Gandhi while underscoring the need to safeguard women’s dignity.

The case concerns a 19-year-old Scheduled Tribe woman from Banka, Bihar , whose parents are employed at a cardamom estate in Kerala . On April 2, she arrived at Bengaluru’s KR Puram railway station around 1.30 am from Kerala.

Accompanied by her cousin and heading toward Mahadevapura for a meal, she was allegedly accosted by two men near the station.

According to the prosecution, the accused restrained the cousin while his accomplice dragged the woman to a nearby spot and raped her.

Locals intervened after she cried for help. The alleged

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