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Plea filed in SC by ex IFS officers, activists to stop arms supply to Israel

By Jhanak Sharma      04 September, 2024 05:08 PM      0 Comments
Plea filed in SC by ex IFS officers activists to stop arms supply to Israel

NEW DELHI: A plea has been filed by a group of activists, including former IFS officers, in the Supreme Court for a direction to the Union government to cancel existing licences of companies supplying military arms and ammunitions to Israel during its war in Gaza.

The writ petition filed through advocate Prashant Bhushan alleged violations of international laws and the Constitution in supply of arms to India through public sector Munitions India, and private companies such as M/s Premier Explosive and Adani Defence and Aeropace Ltd.

The petitioners led by retired IFS officer, Ashok Kumar Sharma alleged violation of India’s obligations under international law coupled with Articles 14 and 21 of the Constitution.

The petition has been filed jointly by Meena Gupta, Deb Mukharji, Achin Vanaik, Jean Dreze, Thodur Madabusi Krishna, Harsh Mander, Nikhil Dey and others.

They cited a recent January 26, 2024 decision by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) which 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 included immediate military halt to all killings and destruction that is being perpetrated by Israel on the Palestinian people.

The plea claimed in supplying arms to the State of Israel, through Munitions India, a public sector undertaking, and granting licences to others for the same purpose, the Union government has breached and continues to breach its obligations under international law with full knowledge of the situation, failing to prevent the ongoing genocide against the Palestinian People in particular Gazans and by not only failing to prevent the ongoing genocide but by providing aid, including military equipment, to Israel that would be used in the commission of genocide.

The plea also said the ICJ in July, 2024 noted that the sustained abuse by Israel of its position as an occupying power, through the use of disproportionate violence on the Palestinian people, violated fundamental principles of international law and renders Israel’s presence in the occupied territory unlawful.

It contended India is bound by various international laws and treaties that obligated 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 stated in various judgments, this court has held that India is under an obligation to interpret domestic law in the light of the obligations under the conventions and treaties that India has both signed and ratified.

"India is obligated under the Genocide Convention (which India has signed and ratified) to take all measures within its power to prevent genocide. India therefore cannot export any military equipment or weapons to Israel when there is a serious risk these weapons might be used to commit war crimes," the plea said.

The continued supply of arms is in violation India’s obligations under international law coupled with Articles 14 and 21 read with 51(c) of the Constitution, it said.



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