KATHMANDU: The government has transferred the Valley Police Chief AIG Shyamlal Gyawali who has been handling the fake Bhutanese Refugee case in four and half months.
The cabinet meeting held on Friday transferred the AIGs including Shyamlal Gyawali, Chief of Valley Police Office, Ranipokhari.
According to sources, Nepali Congress President Sher Bahadur Deuba mounted pressure on Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ and Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister Narayan Kaji Shrestha to transfer Gyawali.
He was transferred when the Valley Crime Investigation Office, Baneshwar was about to start the second phase of investigation in the case of fake Bhutanese refugees after taking additional complaints.
The source claimed that NC President Deuba also tried to remove Dr. Manoj, head of the Valley Crime Investigation Office. Sources claim that there was pressure to remove Manoj KC as well.
Although there were preparations to take the transfer proposal to the Council of Ministers on Tuesday, it was stopped. The decision to transfer AIG was made on the proposal of the Ministry of Home on Friday.
It was only 4 and a half months after Gyawali was transferred to the Valley Police Office. Deepak Thapa, head of the administration department, has been transferred to the post of chief of the Valley Police.
AIG Meera Chaudhary has been transferred to the Administration. AIG Shyam Gyawali has been sent for the task.
AIG Tek Prasad Rai, head of the National Police Training Institute, has been transferred to the Human Resource Department. Sandeep Bhandari, head of Human Resources, has been sent to replace Rai.
Rai had earlier expressed his displeasure to the Inspector General of Police (IGP) Basant Bahadur Kunwar saying that he was transferred too early without any reason. Instead, he (Rai) asked to be sent to the Secretariat of the National Security Council.
Rai is a long-time officer in the Special Bureau, an intelligence agency of the police that deals with counter-terrorism and international organized crime investigations. He was leading a police unit for the fourth time in nearly three decades of police service.
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