The ex-Teri head has been allegedly accused of harassing a research scholar by sending inappropriate SMSes and emails messages to her
A Forensic Lab Report (FSL) filed in a Delhi court on Wednesday stated that none of the SMSes, and emails between RK Pachauri, former head of The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) and a 29-year-old research scholar, who has alleged sexual harassment by him, were "fabricated."
Based on the FSL report, a supplementary chargesheet has been filed in the court of Metropolitan Magistrate Chetna Singh after the police retrieved the deleted messages and emails exchanged between the victim and the accused.
The report stated that the email communications between the accused and the victim were present in the computer storage media hard disk seized from Pachauri's office. The FSL also concluded that Pachauri's electronic devices were not hacked and were not infected by any software which could threaten their security.
However, Pachauri's counsel Ashish Dixit dismissed all the reports and said, "Pachauri has never claimed that his accounts were hacked. He only submitted before the Internal Complaints Committee (ICC) that his emails were accessed by his secretarial staff, including the complainant, and he apprehends that there are certain emails which are a consequence of misuse."
The report further stated that the SMSs and emails submitted by the victim are genuine and nothing was cooked up by her.
"No discrepancy was observed between the text contents of the hard disk (referred to as Annexure-C in the report) and text contents retrieved from a cellphone (referred to as device Exh-A)," the report added.
While submitting the supplementary chargesheet in court, the Delhi police stated, "Several incoming and outgoing SMSs, emails, WhatsApp messages, phone calls etc were exchanged between the alleged and the complainant. The same is being submitted in the form of a supplementary chargesheet for further necessary judicial verdict.
The supplementary chargesheet was filed after the Directorate of Forensic Science, Gandhinagar, annexed five CDs and one DVD II containing information obtained after the examination of Pachauri's electronic devices.
In the meanwhile, Additional District Judge Jitendra Kumar Mishra passed an interim order on February 25 stating that it would be mandatory for the media houses to publish or telecast any report regarding the case with a title, "In any court the allegations have not been proved and they may not be correct."
The order also added that "when such information is published in any page of a magazine or report then it should be in middle of the page in bold letters and it should be five times larger than the font in which the article is being published."
Earlier, the research scholar had filed a case against Pachauri alleging that she was sexually assaulted by him. Pachauri then went on an indefinite leave from TERI following an outcry. He also stepped down as the chairperson of the UN Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change in February last year and proceeded to be on leave from TERI, where he was the Director General.
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