abstract:The Inspector General of Police (IGP) is the professional head of the Sri Lanka Police. He is the most senior police officer in Sri Lanka and oversees all police personnel throughout the country.
Fivepeoplewere killed and nineotherswere wounded, saidDeputyInspectorGeneral of PoliceSatbirGupta, adding that threeof the injured were in serious conditions.
Born in Patna in eastern India a year before partition, he reached Lahore as a teenager (after bouncing around the newly created Pakistan), when his father retired there as deputy inspectorgeneralofpolice.
Within hours of the explosion the province's InspectorGeneralofPolice, Abdul Hai Qadar, was suspended along with two other senior police officials, according to the state-run news agency, The Associated Press of Pakistan.