The Supreme Court in Delhi has dismissed a Public Interest Litigation, calling on the Indian government to ban the training of Sri Lankan defence officials.
"It is a matter of foreign policy. We won't interfere with the policy matters," said judges at the court.
The DMK, a member of the ruling coalition, said it will continue to push for a ban and said the judges only refused to comment on policy matters, but did not say whether the training programmes should be stopped or not.
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