{"id":427376,"date":"2026-03-31T10:37:50","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T04:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/?p=427376"},"modified":"2026-03-31T10:37:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T04:52:52","slug":"former-kathmandu-cdo-chhabi-rijal-arrested-in-connection-with-gen-z-protest-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/2026\/03\/31\/427376.html","title":{"rendered":"Former Kathmandu CDO Chhabi Rijal Arrested in Connection with Gen-Z Protest Probe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kathmandu, March 31 \u2014 Former Chief District Officer (CDO) of Kathmandu, Chhabi Rijal, was arrested on Tuesday morning from his residence in Koteshwor by a team from the Kathmandu Valley Crime Investigation Office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rijal, who was serving as the CDO of the Kathmandu District Administration Office during the Gen-Z protests held on September 8 and 9, 2025, was taken into custody following recommendations made by the Karki Commission. The commission was formed to investigate the incidents surrounding the protests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Superintendent of Police Manohar Prasad Bhatta, Rijal will be handed over to the District Police Range, Kathmandu, for further investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The arrest comes days after police detained former Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli and former Home Minister Ramesh Lekhak on March 27 in connection with the same incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu, March 31 \u2014 Former Chief District Officer (CDO) of Kathmandu, Chhabi Rijal, was arrested on Tuesday morning from his residence in Koteshwor by a team from the Kathmandu Valley Crime Investigation Office. Rijal, who was serving as the CDO of the Kathmandu District Administration Office during the Gen-Z protests held on September 8 and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":427377,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3,4,5],"tags":[],"reporter":[],"class_list":["post-427376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-en-cover","category-english","category-en-news","category-top-stories"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427376"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427376"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":427378,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427376\/revisions\/427378"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427376"},{"taxonomy":"reporter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reporter?post=427376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}