The government Tuesday promoted Sahabir Thapa, Additional Inspector General of Armed Police to the post of Acting Inspector General following the brutal murder of Krishna Mohan Shrestha who was earlier serving as the IGP of the armed forces.
Home Secretary Tika Dutta Niraula presented the insignia of the Inspector General of Armed Police to Thapa at a function organized at the Home Ministry.
Thapa was born in 1952 in Baitadi in Far Western Region and entered the police service in 1973 as an assistant sub inspector.