Krishna Mohan Shrestha ( ne, कृष्णमोहन श्रेष्ठ) was the first Inspector General of

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. Shrestha was killed by the Maoist insurgents during the

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. Krishna Mohan along with his wife and bodyguard was assassinated on the morning of 25 January 2003 by gunmen in Lalitpur, while he was taking a morning walk as they used to do on Sunday mornings, intending to represent general safety to fellow citizens. The Inspector General and his wife, who was a teacher at an international school in the capital, were both unarmed. His wife Nudup Shrestha was a senior teacher in the

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* http://www.apf.gov.np/index.php?c=3&lan=en Nepalese murder victims People murdered in Nepal 2003 deaths Year of birth missing {{Nepal-bio-stub