The Office of the Attorney General has forwarded the illegal census registration case in Zhemgang to the District Court. The investigations, involving seven people, took four years to complete.
The third hearing was held today.
The main accused- two former Gups of Shingkhar, Taula and Phuntsho and Mangmi Yonten are now being prosecuted in the Zhemgang District Court.
They served as the local leaders between 1992-2010.
In 2010, a household in Wamling village under Shingkhar Gewog discovered two additional members in their census record. They came to know only when some differences surfaced while paying their life insurance fees. The matter was reported to the Dzongkhag Authority.
The investigation revealed that the registration was done in deceptive manner, without completing proper procedures of census registration.
According to sources, the two additional census registrations was said to have carried out by a 70-year-old man from Zhemgang, who was then working as a public servant. He had brought two boys from across the border from an orphanage school in early 1990s and later had them registered.
Sources also told BBS that the illegal registration could have been done in early nineties.
