Meet Indian Judge Dalveer Bhandari, who voted against Israel's Rafah offensive at ICJ
Immediately halt its military offensive and any other action in the Rafah Governorate, which may inflict on the Palestinian group in Gaza conditions of life that could bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part".The ICJ ruling against Israel on Friday brought the focus on Judge Dalveer Bhandari in India. So who is Dalveer Bhandari, the Indian Judge who voted in favor of the ruling against Israel.A former Supreme Court judge, Justice Bhandari has been a member of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) since 2012.
He was re-elected to the ICJ in 2017, the day which Prime Minister Narendra Modi has described as a "proud moment".According to the Ministry of External Affairs, Bhandari was re-elected when the UN General Assembly and UN Security Council convened independently in New York on November 20, 2017, to fill the fifth vacancy for the 2018-2027 term.Bhandari had then received all the 15 votes in the UN Security Council and 183 out of the 193 votes in the UN General Assembly. This happened as the UK decided to withdraw its candidate after a closely fought electoral process."The extraordinary support from the UN membership is reflective of the respect for strong constitutional integrity of the Indian polity and the independence of the judiciary in India," the external affairs ministry had said in a press release.This was not the fist time that Justice Dalveer Bhandari voted in support of the ruling that called for a halt on Israel's operation in Rafah.
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