The Supreme Courtroom has commuted the loss of life sentence given to serial rapist and assassin BA Umesh alias Umesh Reddy, changing the punishment to a 30-year life imprisonment sentence.
In an order issued on Friday, the court docket commuted Reddy’s sentence on the grounds that he had been positioned in solitary confinement for 10 years.
In 2021, the Karnataka excessive court docket had rejected Reddy’s attraction to commute the loss of life sentence. His mercy plea was rejected by the President in 2012.
Reddy, whose rap sheet at one time prolonged to 18 murders and 20 rapes throughout Karnataka, Maharashtra and Gujarat, was finally convicted in 9 instances. He was sentenced to loss of life by a classes court docket in Bengaluru in 2006 for the rape and homicide of a 37-year-old girl in Peenya.
A former policeman, Reddy has been lodged within the Belagavi jail since November 6, 2011.
“Reddy heaved of a sigh of aid after he was informed his punishment was become life imprisonment,” jail superintendent Krishnakumar informed HT. The SP added that the state jail division had not acquired the order copy up to now.
In keeping with information accessible with the police, Reddy joined the Central Reserve Police Pressure (CRPF) 1996 and was posted in Jammu and Kashmir as a guard on the home of a commandant. There, he tried to rape the commandant’s daughter. Although he was arrested, he managed to flee and returned to Chitradurga.
In 1996, he joined the District Armed Reserve (DAR) Police.
Chatting with HT earlier, BN Nyamagouda, the police inspector who arrested Reddy described him as a ruthless killer who managed to flee the police no less than 5 occasions.
“There have been no techniques in place then to examine backgrounds of individuals, so after operating away from CRPF, he got here to Chitradurga and have become a constable in District Armed Reserve (DAR) in November 1996. However he didn’t stick round there both, as a result of he was caught in a rape case there as nicely,” Nyamegowda had mentioned.
Officers aware of Reddy’s case revealed a stunning trajectory of heinous crimes from that time on.
In November 1996, Umesh tried to rape a highschool woman in Chitradurga. She managed to flee by hitting him with a stone. A month later, he raped and murdered a 16-year-old in the identical city. In January 1997, the woman he tried to rape recognized him at a Republic Day police parade and he was then arrested and dismissed from service.
Subsequently, Reddy fled from police custody whereas being shifted from Chitradurga to Bellary. In keeping with police data, after his escape, Reddy killed an revenue tax officer’s spouse in Bengaluru, a lady in Ahmedabad, two ladies in Vadodara, and a lady in Kunigal city of Tumakuru district in Karnataka. Throughout this era, he managed to flee from police custody six occasions.
On February 28, 1998, he raped and murdered a 37-year-old girl in her home in Peenya. Quickly after that, he tried to rape a lady in the identical locality however the girl raised an alarm and he tried to flee by leaping off the primary flooring of the home. Reddy injured his ankle because of the soar and was caught by native residents and handed over to the police.
Throughout investigations, it was discovered that Reddy had a behavior of stealing the garments of the ladies he focused. In 2002, when he was arrested in Bengaluru, he was discovered carrying lingerie. When police checked his luggage, they discovered numerous articles of ladies’s clothes.