The Home Minister and members of the Gyalpoizhing land allotment committee have appealed to the High Court as they feel that the Monggar district court’s verdict failed to take cognizance of the Municipal Act of 1999.
The Home Minister’s legal counsel, some of the committee members and officials from the Anti-Corruption Commission attended the first hearing at the high court’s full bench today.
ACC in its first hearing said, the Home Minister, Minjur Dorji, was found guilty of not abiding by His Majesty’s Kasho of 1987. He was also charged for official misconduct of allotting plots, to those who were not entitled to receive the plots.
To refute the ACC’s statement, the legal counsel, Jamyang Sherab Wangdi said the procedures on plot allotments were issued by the Royal Government in 1991 in pursuant to the Kaja of 1987. It means that the municipal committees had the authority to allot plots in urban areas.
The legal counsel added that the Monggar district court had ruled out conflict of interest in the Home Minister’s case.
The legal counsel Jamyang Sherab Wangdi is representing the committee members from here on.
The ACC will submit its rebuttal, this Friday.
