Bengaluru: Will Karnataka witness a judicial hanging after 1983? After the Supreme Court on October 3 rejected the review petition of serial rapist and killer B.A Umesh Reddy against the death penalty, there are chances that he will be hanged to death unless he applies for a curative petition in the apex court before the executive order of his execution is passed.
“He (Umesh) still has a window of opportunity by the way of curative petition. He will have to move the court immediately before the executive order of his execution is passed,” said senior advocate and former State Public Prosecutor B.T. Venkatesh. Curative petition is an extraordinary and last legal remedy for redressal of grievance against the final judgement/order of the Supreme Court after dismissal of a review petition.
The prison authorities have, meanwhile, informed the condemned prisoner, who is housed in the high-security Hindalga prison at Belgavi about the apex court’s dismissal of his petition. The Superintendent, Hindalga prison, Sesha on Monday received a soft copy of the apex court order and informed Reddy.
