The High Court of Karnataka has declined to release serial rapist and killer B.A. Umesh Reddy on parole in one of the rape and murder case, in which he is undergoing imprisonment for life at Bengaluru central prison after his death sentence was commuted to imprisonment for life by the apex court in 2022.
Justice M. Nagaprasanna passed the order while dismissing a petition filed by Reddy questioning the rejection of his plea by the prison authorities for release on parole for 30 days to be with his 84-year-old ailing mother and to undertake repair of her house, which is said to be in dilapidated condition.
Merely because the apex court has granted him an opportunity to seek remission after 30 years and he has already completed 26 years in imprisonment since his arrest, he is not entitled for parole, the court observed.
