Bengaluru: B A Umesh Reddy, rapist and serial killer and a death row convict has moved Karnataka High Court on Monday for commutation of death sentence imposed on him.

The counsel for Reddy mentioned about the filing of the petition before a division bench headed by Chief Justice Subhro Kamal Mukherjee on Monday morning, requesting for an urgent hearing on the plea. The bench said that it would be taken up on Tuesday.

In his petition, Reddy has claimed that there is an avoidable and excessive delay of two years and three months in disposal of his mercy petition (filed by his mother) and thereby execution of death sentence. He further adds that he had suffered solitary confinement lasting 10 years and also mental illness.