Thimphu District Court sentenced a 29-year-old man to five years imprisonment today for possessing controlled substances. The sentence is non-compoundable.
The verdict says the man possessed more than prescribed quantity. He had said the contraband substance were for self-consumption.
The man was also under the influence of controlled substance at the time of arrest.
The convict, who is a law student, was arrested in March, this year, from Semtokha in Thimphu.