The Office of the Attorney General (OAG) has appealed the case involving the vice principal of a charity school in Thimphu.
Last month, the Thimphu District Court convicted the vice principal of child molestation and attempted rape of a minor, and sentenced him to ten years in prison.
But the OAG is seeking harsher sentencing.
In its appeal letter submitted to the High Court court last Friday, the OAG said the lower court did not consider the vice principal’s previous criminal conviction though the offence committed was of the same nature.
In 2004, he was sentenced to five years in prison by the Trashigang District Court for raping a minor.
The OAG says he should be punished with harsher prison sentence since it is his second such offence.
The 39-year-old vice principal molested nine girl students aged 10 to 14 since 2017 and attempted to rape one of them.
