Four AIGs in the IGP race: Dan Bahadur Karki, Rajan Adhikari, Manoj KC and Siddhi Bikram Shah
We use Google Cloud Translation Services. Google requires we provide the following disclaimer relating to use of this service:
This service may contain translations powered by Google. Google disclaims all warranties related to the translations, expressed or implied, including any warranties of accuracy, reliability, and any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and noninfringement.
Nepal Police Inspector General (IGP) Chandrakuber Khapung is retiring in a few days due to his service period. IGP Khapung is set to retire from Wednesday after serving for 30 years. After Khapung, who became the 32nd police chief on 19 Bhadra, retires, the government is busy with the selection process for the next IGP.
There are four AIGs in the race for the IGP post. Kathmandu Valley Police Office Chief Dan Bahadur Karki, Police Headquarters Human Resource Development Department Chief Rajan Adhikari, Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) Chief Manoj KC and Police Training Academy Executive Director Siddhi Bikram Shah are in the race.
Of the four AIGs, Karki, Adhikari and KC are officers who joined the service as police inspectors in Chaitra 2054. All three were promoted from DIG to AIG on 15 Baisakh. At that time, Karki, Adhikari and KC were promoted along with current Inspector Generals Khapung, Lalmani Acharya and Krishnahari Sharma. Khapung will retire from Wednesday. Two other AIGs, Acharya and Sharma, have already retired.
Shah was promoted to AIG on 15 Jestha. Shah joined the National Investigation Department in 2053 and was later transferred to the Nepal Police. According to the Prime Minister's Office, the Cabinet meeting to be held on Monday will decide on the future Inspector General of Police.
'If nothing else, a proposal for the appointment of the IGP will be presented in the meeting because there is no way to keep the IGP post vacant even for a day. If unnecessary time is taken, the government will send a message that it is violating the rules and interfering in sports,' said an official from the Cabinet Office.
There has always been a power struggle in appointments at the top levels of the police, due to which factionalism and the tendency to rush to the power center have increased. This time too, the government has not been able to finalize the leadership even though the day of Khapung's retirement is approaching. This has not conveyed the message of change in the government's working style even after the Gen-G rebellion.
