Seven people, including five former gups, of Shingkhar Gewog in Zhemgang who served from 1992 to 2010 are being interrogated by the Zhemgang Police for alleged illegal census registration under a household in Wamling village in Shingkhar Gewog.
The case came to light in 2010 when the concerned household after a disagreement over payment of the annual life insurance for family members discovered two additional members in the family census.
The family then reported this to the Dzongkhag Authority saying that the two members had been added to their census without their consent.
After three years of investigation by the dzongkhag civil registration office, the case was forwarded to the police for further investigation. The two additional census registrations were, initially, believed to have been carried out by a former civil servant in Zhemgang who had brought the two boys from an orphanage in the Indian state of Jaigaon, India in the early 90s and later had them registered with the family.
After investigation, it was found that the additional registrations were done in a deceptive manner without following proper census registration formalities.
The two people in question are both working adult men, now.
BBS was told by the Zhemgang Police that further inquiry needs to be done to establish facts as well as the number of people that were actually involved in the census registration case.
Once the Police complete their investigation, the case will be forwarded to the Dzongkhag Court.
