Kathmandu, March 24: The government has appointed Basant Bahadur Kunwar as the new Inspector General (IG) of Nepal Police.

The Cabinet meeting held on Friday decided to appoint Basant Bahadur Kunwar as IG. Kunwar has been appointed as the new IGP as Dhiraj Pratap Singh is on compulsory retirement from today.

Kunwar, Tekprasad Rai, Deepak Thapa, Shyamalal Gyawali, and Kiran Bajracharya are senior police officers who were recently promoted from DIG to AIG. All these were contenders for the post of Inspector General of Nepal Police. But the meeting of the Council of Ministers held on Friday appointed Kunwar, who is the first among the five AIGs who were recently promoted from DIG, as the Inspector General of Nepal Police.