Supreme Court · 2024 INSC 674 · Decided 9 September 2024
Ashok Kumar Sharma & Ors v. Union of India
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2024 INSC 674 · [2024] 9 S.C.R. 194
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No. 551/2024
- Decided
- 9 September 2024
- Bench
- D.Y. CHANDRACHUD, J.B. PARDIWALA, MANOJ MISRA (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Writ / Constitutional
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 32, 14, 21, 51(c), 73, 253; Customs Act
Headnote
Whether the Court under Article 32 can issue a writ to the Union Government to cancel existing licences and halt the issuance of new licences for the export of arms and military equipments to Israel. Constitution of India - Art. seeks directions to the Union Government to cancel existing licences/permissions and to halt the grant of new licences to companies in India for the export of arms and military equipment to Israel during the ongoing conflict in Gaza: Held: First, the conduct of an independent sovereign
Judgments are the courts' own published copies, provided for study; they are not certified copies. Source: Indian Supreme Court & High Court Judgments, Dattam Labs (CC-BY-4.0)