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PIL filed in SC to stop export of arms, military equipments to Israel

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New Delhi: A public interest lawsuit (PIL) has been filed in the Supreme Court, asking the court to order the Centre to revoke licenses and refuse to issue new ones to Indian companies that provide military equipment and other weapons to Israel, which is at war in Gaza.

The PIL, filed through lawyer Prashant Bhushan, has made the Union Ministry of Defence a party, and said, “India is bound by various international laws and treaties that obligate India not to supply military weapons to States guilty of war crimes, as any export could be used in serious violations of international humanitarian law”.

The plea filed by 11 people, including Ashok Kumar Sharma, a resident of Noida, said the supply of military equipment to Israel by companies, including a public sector enterprise, under the MoD violates India’s obligations under international law coupled with Articles 14 and 21 of the Constitution.

“Issue a writ of mandamus or any other appropriate writ or direction to the respondents, Union of India, through its various organs, to cancel any existing licences and halt the grant of new licences/permissions, to various companies in India, for export of arms and other military equipment to Israel…,” the plea said.

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) in a recent decision of January 26, 2024, ordered provisional measures against Israel for violations in the Gaza Strip of obligations under the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.

“The provisional measures include an immediate military halt to all killings and destruction that is being perpetrated by Israel on the Palestinian people. In the light of this judgment United Nations experts released a statement warning against the transfer of weapons and military ammunition to Israel which may constitute a serious violation of human rights and international humanitarian laws and risk state complicity in international crimes, possibly including genocide,” it said.

“India is bound by various international laws and treaties that obligate India not to supply military weapons to States guilty of war crimes, as any export could be used in serious violations of international humanitarian law,” it said.

Israel’s war on Gaza has led to killings of thousands of Palestinians. Prior to this, in an unprecedented attack, Hamas gunmen stormed across Gaza’s border into Israel and killed about 1,200 people on the morning of October 7, 2023.


With PTI inputs

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