Suhail Rashid Bhat vs State Of Jammu & Kashmir And Others on 25 October, 2019
350. The observations of Chinnappa Reddy, J., in the concurring
judgment striking down the law in Mithu v. State support the above
observations made by this Court on the challenge to the procedure
prescribed under Section 5 of the Act and the mandatory sentence under
Section 6 of the Act for a repeat offence in the present case and deserve to
be extracted in extenso. These observations of the Learned Judge read thus: