‘Can’t Meddle With Foreign Policy’: SC Junks Plea Seeking Directions On Halting Arms Exports To Israel
A three-judge bench headed by Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud said the top court cannot meddle in India's foreign policy and noted that Indian firms which export arms and equipment to Israel might be sued if the supplies are stopped.
Israel-Hamas War: The Supreme Court Monday disregarded a plea in search of a direction to the Centre to halt the export of arms and military equipment to Israel which is engaged in bloody war with the Hamas militant group in Gaza since October 7 last year. A three-judge apex court bench headed by Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud said the pinnacle court cannot meddle in India’s foreign policy which is domain of the country’s political establishment.
The bench, also comprising of Justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra, noted that Indian firms which export arms and equipment to the Jewish nation may maybe be sued for breach of contractual obligations and hence they'll't be stopped from supplying.
“Do we direct that under the UN’s genocide convention you ban the export to Israel…why this restraint. It truly is because it impacts the foreign policy and we do no longer know what the impact shall be,” CJI Chandrachud observed.
“We shouldn't enter into the nation’s foreign policy domain,” he said.
A PIL had been filed by Ashok Kumar Sharma and others through lawyer Prashant Bhushan in search of a direction to the Centre to cancel the licences and no longer to grant new ones to Indian firms exporting arms and other military equipment to Israel.
Israel launched military campaign in Gaza after and an remarkable attack by Hamas killed about 1,200 people at some point of the Jewish state on October 7, 2023. Israel war on Gaza resulted in killings of thousands of Palestinians, mostly civilians, drawing condemnation from a sort of countries internationally.
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