Moti Lal Bohora Explained

Honorific-Prefix:	IGP
Motilal Bohara
Native Name:	मोतीलाल बोहरा
Office:	15th Inspector General of Nepal Police
Term Start:	February, 1993
Term End:	February 1997
Primeminister:	Girija Prasad Koirala
Birth Place:	Achham
Citizenship:	Nepalese
Nationality:	Nepali
Occupation:	Politician, police officer

Moti Lal Bohara (ne|मोतिलाल बोहरा) was the chief of Nepal Police from 1993 to 1997. He succeeded Ratna Shumsher J.B.R. as the police chief and was succeeded by Achyut Krishna Kharel.^[1]

It was during his tenure as chief that the "People's War" in Nepal began. He is the last known officer to have remained IGP for a full term (4 years).^{[2] [3] [4] [5] [6]}

As of 2014, Former police chief Moti Lal Bohara is involved as founding member of Maalika Development Bank in Dhangadi.^[7]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Police History - Ex-Chief of Police . 2013-04-10.
2. Nepal Press Digest 1998 - 42 p.259 "Motilal Bohara, a former Inspector-General of Police, formally joined the Nepali Congress as a loyal worker in his home district of Achham. (Rising Nepal, August 29). In Achham, 120 workers of the UML formally joined the NC".
3. Nepal Police Mirror, 2011
4. Web site: Ex-IGP Bohara convicted of graft: sent to jail for 18 months . The Himalayan.
5. Web site: Special Court convicts ex-IGP Bohora of corruption; slaps 18 months jail sentence . nepalnews.com . 3 April 2012 . 27 September 2013.
6. Web site: Ekantipur, 2012.
7. Web site: Ex-police officers in alternative professions . 2014-04-12 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140413132538/http://www.karobardaily.com/news/2014/03/ex-police-officers-in-alternative-professions . 2014-04-13 . dead .