Former Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG) and newly elected lawmaker of CPN-UML Nawaraj Silwal has claimed that he was not on the run, and rather was with the people all the time.

Taking oath as federal parliament member at Parliament building in Naya -Baneshwor in Kathmandu on Sunday, Silwal said, “I am with citizens and had not gone into hiding. I will now work for the citizens.”

Silwal, who is in the wanted list of Nepal Police for document forgery case, was elected as member of Federal House of Representatives from Lalitpur-1.

Police have been searching for Silwal after the Supreme Court (SC) ordered the government to initiate action against him concluding that he had forged the performance appraisal reports he had submitted to the apex court seeking his appointment as the chief of Nepal Police.

On January 2, Kathmandu Metropolitan Police Office had issued an arrest warrant against Silwal for investigation into a document forgery case.