India’s Supreme Court has dismissed a public interest litigation which sought an order for the federal government to halt licenses to Indian firms exporting arms to Israel, Anadolu reports.
“We cannot enter into the nation’s foreign policy domain,” said a bench comprising Chief Justice DY Chandrachud and two other judges.
The bench said the Indian firms, involved in arms export, may be sued for breach of contractual obligations and hence they cannot be stopped from supplying.
“Can we direct that under the UN’s genocide convention you ban the export to Israel. Why this restraint. This is because it impacts the foreign policy and we do not know what the impact will be,” The Press Trust of India news agency quoted the judges as saying.
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