The meeting of the Committee today issued such a directive after repeated calls by the Committee to amend the existing Act and regulations related to the security bodies or to formulate a new Act was ignored.[break]
Likewise, the meeting also directed the government to review the existing security strategy and action plan based on the recent verdict of the Supreme Court on the privileges enjoyed by various past and present office-bearers and to come up with an appropriate decision in this regard.
At the meeting today, Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister Bijaya Kumar Gachchadar said he was working to keep the home administration completely free of political intervention, and expressed the commitment to table a proposal on necessary amendment to the Police Act within a month before the parliament.
Also speaking on the occasion, Home Secretary Sushil Jung Bahadur Rana, Inspector General of Police, Rabindra Pratap Shaha, IGP of Armed Police Force, Sailendra Kumar Shrestha and Chief of National Investigation Department, Moti Gurung stressed the need to develop necessary physical infrastructure along with the capacity of the security bodies in order to consolidate the security situation in the country.
At the meeting chaired by Committee Chairperson Ram Nath Dhakal, committee members Arjun Prasad Joshi, Janardan Sharma, Bishnu Poudel, Pampha Bhusal, Ram Janam Chaudhary, Damber Sambahamphe, Bimala KC and others sought clarification on various aspects of the security situation in the country.
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