The Modi government licensed a shipment in January 2024, the very month the ICJ ruled that “at least some of the acts and omissions alleged … to have been committed by Israel in Gaza appear to be capable of falling within the provisions of the [Genocide] Convention.”
New Delhi: The Adani group’s drone sales may be the most high profile weapon export from India to a country accused of genocide at the world court but there is evidence that Indian-supplied ordnance may have made its way to Israel as well.
In a recent report, The Wire established that the Hyderabad-based Adani-Elbit Advanced Systems India Ltd. – a joint venture company between Adani Defence and Aerospace and Israel’s Elbit Systems – had exported munitions in the form of Indian-made aero-structures and subsystems purposed specifically for military use for over 20 Hermes 900 UAVs/drones, if not complete drones, to Israel between 2019 and 2023.
Publicly available records now indicate that Munitions India Ltd (MIL) – a public sector enterprise under the Ministry of Defence – has also been permitted to ship its products to Israel as recently as January 2024. On April 18, 2024, the company has again applied for exporting the same products under a repeat order from Israel. Approval for the company’s second export to Israel is under consideration by the licensing authorities.
MIL was established in 2021 as part of the restructuring and corporatisation of the 41 ordnance factories as seven different PSUs. According to a company brochure, MIL is engaged in the “production, testing, R&D and marketing of a comprehensive range of ammunition and explosives for the army, navy, air force and para-military forces”. Its 12 manufacturing units across the country provide an “integrated base for production of small, medium and high calibre ammunition, mortars, rockets, hand grenades etc. with in-housing manufacturing of initiatory compositions, propellants and high explosives” and the company’s objective is “to provide competitive edge to the armed forces by equipping them with modern and quality battlefield ammunition”.
Given the above, one would think that MIL’s entire range of products would fall under the Munitions List of SCOMET, or Special Chemicals, Organisms, Materials, Equipment and Technologies (Category 6), and would, therefore, require authorisation by the Department of Defence Production (DDP) for export….
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