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Bhutan: SC Justice and Pemagatshel Judge Detained in Alleged Conspiracy Case
The two were arrested after a former Royal Body Guard commandant, Brigadier Thinley Tobgye was detained in connection with a criminal conspiracy against the chief operations officer of the Royal Bhutan Army.
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New Delhi: The Bhutan police on Wednesday detained the senior-most justice of the Supreme Court, Kuenlay Tshering, along with the drangpon (associate justice) of the Pemagatshel dzongkhag administrative unit, Yeshey Dorji.
Kuensel, the two were arrested after a former Royal Body Guard commandant, Brigadier Thinley Tobgye was detained in connection with a criminal conspiracy against the chief operations officer of the Royal Bhutan Army.
The political rambling in Bhutan is almost bust – with the arrest of the senior most justice of the Supreme Court of Bhutan on Tuesday afternoon.
A team of Royal Bhutan Police arrested Kuenley Tshering, in what is seen as the most high-profile arrest in the recent Bhutanese history. Along with him, police have also arrested a judge in Pemagasthsel District Court – Yeshey Dorji.
The two high profile arrests comes shortly after the arrest of a Royal Body Guard commandant, Brigadier Thinley Tobgye, in connection with a criminal conspiracy against the Chief Operations Officer of the Royal Bhutan Army (RBA) Batoo Tshering.