KATHMANDU: The government has decided to promote three Deputy Inspector General (DIGs) of Nepal Police to Additional Inspector General (AIGs).
A cabinet meeting held on Thursday morning decided to promote DIG Basant Kumar Pant, Dhiraj Pratap Singh and Rabindra Bahadur Dhanuk to AIG.
The promotion recommendation committee of the Home Ministry had decided to recommend them for promotion to AIG recently.
Senior DIGs who were not included in the recommendation had lodged a complaint with the Public Service Commission saying that seniority and efficiency were not taken into consideration in the recommendation.
After the commission presented the decision of the Home Ministry on Wednesday, the cabinet decided to promote the three to AIG. Among the promoted, Pant belongs to the current batch of IGP Shailesh Thapa Chhetri.
Other senior DIGs of his batch are saying that they will go to court if they do not get justice from the Public Service Commission.
With the government promoting three of them to AIG, Singh and Dhanuk will also become contenders for the post of Inspector General of Police.
There is a provision in the police regulations that the government can appoint any person from among the AIGs as IGP. Earlier, Bishwaraj Pokharel and Sahakul Bahadur Thapa of his batch have become AIGs.
The current IGP Thapa will retire on May 2, 2022.
IGP Thapa today confered with insignia all the three promoted AIGs Pant, Singh and Dhanuk amidst a program in the Nepal Police Head Office.
Meanwhile, DIG Ishwor Babu Karki has lodged a writ petition in the Supreme Court claiming that the government decision of promotion of DIGs into AIG was illegal and against the set practice.
