KATHMANDU. Dec 11:

Nepal's coalition government today removed Communist -backed police chief Dhruva Bahadur Pradhan and reinstated his ousted predecessor, state-radio announced, says AFP.

The former government, backed by the Nepal Communist Party-United Marxist and Leninist (NCP-UML) and headed by then prime minister Lok-endra Bahadur Chand of the rightist National Democratic Party (NDP), had removed inspector General of Police Achut Krishna Kharel from his post and made him chief of the National Investigation Department.