The Office of Attorney General (OAG), while submitting nine evidence, said the former Royal Advisory Councillor, Chang Ugyen should be convicted for acquiring land through illegal means.
OAG was submitting their case in the Thimphu District Court, today.
The prosecutor said the 3.02-acre land at Omkha and seven-acre land at Lubding are not reflected in the old Thrams of Chang Ugyen until he became the Chang Gup.
The prosecutor said if Chang Ugyen had inherited the land, it should have been reflected in old Thrams. With no documents to support Chang Ugyen’s case, the OAG said the land was acquired illegally by tampering the documents.
The documents were tampered with in November 1987 when Chang Ugyen was the then Chang Gup, said OAG’s prosecutor, by colluding with the former Land Record Officer, Sonam Norbu.
The prosecutor also submitted to the court; an investigation report conducted by the high-level committee in 2003, copy of note sheet submitted by Sonam Norbu stating the need to change the Thrams, and copy of ‘no objection letter’ issued by Chang Ugyen to Sonam Norbu allowing Sonam Norbu’s mother-in-law the ownership of three-acre Sokshing land in Punakha.
On the other hand, Chang Ugyen’s Defense Council said the evidence is not clear as it does not reflect the time, date, how and who tampered with the documents.
The court decided to hold the next hearing on December 10.
