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Staff Reporter/Thimphu The Druk Phuensum Tshogpa (DPT) today missed its last day deadline of 10 days to file an appeal against the District Court verdict in the DPT vs Dasho Benji defamation case. The case verdict on 5th January not only allowed DPT to withdraw its defamation case and awarded …
Read More »OAG investigation in sedition case to await appeal process
However, legal opinions differ on the matter The Office of the Attorney General (OAG) will await the appeal process by either the Druk Phuensum Tshogpa (DPT) or Dasho Benji before it starts coordinating any investigation on the prima facie sedition case against DPT. It is unlikely that Dasho Benji …
Read More »Supreme Court says Dzongkha will remain court language
The Bench five district court verdict on the Dasho Benji case created a stir not only for the case verdict and directions to investigate sedition charges, but also its assertion that Dzongkha is not the court language. The verdict in its ‘Court Findings’ section, justifying why it accepted the submissions …
Read More »Students worried after Dzongkha becomes a must pass
The 18th annual National Education Conference (NEC) endorsed some strategies to promote the Dzongkha, in schools of which the strategy to make Dzongkha a compulsory pass subject has generated much attention. The NEC decided that Dzongkha will be a main subject in that students have to pass the subject to …
Read More »Sedition charge if upheld could mean dissolution for DPT
The Thimphu district court’s bench five verdict not only pronounced a Nu 450,000 compensation for Dasho Benji in the defamation case filed against him, but it also caused a political earthquake by saying there is a prima facie case of sedition against the Druk Phuensum Tshogpa (DPT). If the sedition …
Read More »Dangchu Gup’s resignation and the LG Pandora’s box
Less than month after receiving Dhar and Kabney from His Majesty The King in the symbolically significant Simtokha Dzong and a few weeks after taking the oath of office, the Dangchu Gup, Sonam Dorji in Wangduephodrang Dzongkhag put up his resignation on 14th November 2016 which was accepted by the …
Read More »Dasho Benji to be awarded Nu 450,000
The Bench five of the Thimphu district court has allowed the Druk Phuensum Tshogpa (DPT) to withdraw the defamation case against Dasho Benji in accordance with section 153 of the Civil and Criminal Procedures Code (CCPC). However, as per the indemnity rule enjoined in the same section the plaintiff Dasho …
Read More »Breaking: Dasho Benji to get 450,000 and DPT prime facie guilty of sedition
Breaking: Bench five of the Thimphu District Court has allowed DPT to withdraw its defamation case but has awarded Dasho Benji Nu 450,000 in damages. Court has also found DPT prima facie guilty of sedition and has directed the OAG to coordinate with investigative agencies for a thorough investigation after …
Read More »URC land reform to benefit farmers and unemployed youth
It would also prevent hoarding of state land by public agencies The National Land Commission (NLC), in a few months time, will be coming up with the User Rights Certificate (URC) land reform which is expected to facilitate the allotment of state lands for agricultural and economic purposes in rural …
Read More »Underage admission leads to humiliation and beatings
One of the worst kept secrets of schools in both Thimphu and across Bhutan is an increasing trend to admit underage students based on family pressure and tacit acceptance by schools. This is in violation of Ministry of Education rules which allows admission only on reaching the age six. One …
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