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The SC says it did the right thing under the circumstances On 18th August 2016, a joint bench of Justice Tashi Chozom and Justice Rinzin Penjore of the Supreme Court passed its verdict on Dr Shacha Wangmo’s mother Tandin Bidha versus Sonam Phuntsho case. The verdict essentially said that Tandin …

With the Druk Phuensum Tshogpa (DPT) not appealing the Dasho Benji case verdict the Office of the Attorney General (OAG) will now be following due legal process, as outlined for it by the District Court order, which directed the OAG to coordinate the sedition investigation. The District Court in its …

The Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) and the Office of the Attorney General (OAG) are headed into another headlong clash, this time over the Trongsa land case that implicates the former Trongsa Dzongda Lhab Dorji, his wife and other local government figures at the time. On one side the ACC is …

Govt to not interfere with BICMA’s decision The producer of the movie ‘Hema Hema: Sing me a song while I wait,’ Pawo Choyning Dorji has written a letter, dated 18th January to the Bhutan InfoComm and Media Authority (BICMA) pointing out what he sees as anomalies in BICMA’s decision to …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …