The Former TERI Chief has been accused by a colleague of sexual harassment charges.
Former TERI Chief RK Pachauri accused in a sexual harassment and outraging the modesty of a former woman colleague, has spoken to Guardian's Observer Magazine about the scandal.
Throughout her tenure at TERI, the victim claimed she would be asked to enter Pachauri's office on various pretexts after office hours. It got to a point where the victim said she took to avoiding meeting him (Pachauri). According to the statement, when the victim told another female colleague about Pachauri's advances, she was told "Pachauri is like this only."
The messages allegedly sent by Pachauri to the victim were also attached in the 41 page chargesheet last month. Most messages started with "Dearest Meri Jaan" and one example of the message read: "Well the truth is that I have never felt so overwhelmingly in love as I have been with you, and even though you gave me so much pain, I will always be your well-wisher and carry beautiful memories of the joyous moments between us, limited as they might have been."
Reacting to these charges, Pachauri alleged that someone had hacked or misused his computers and emails. He claimed that he would hardly access his Gmail account and never checked his sent items folder too. He further claimed that it was the victim who flirted with him and wanted to have a relationship with him.
“I was, during that period, extremely busy and carrying out email communications on six different email accounts. These included my Yale, IPCC, Teri official, Hotmail as well as Gmail accounts. I generally corresponded with her on my Gmail account, but since I had a huge volume of messages to deal with I did not frequently read my messages, except when I was alerted about a message waiting for me. When I did access this account, I would only read unread messages. Honestly, how many of us check our sent items regularly?”
Pachauri's lawyer had filed documents in the court showing alleged mails from the victim to Pachauri: “I am learning as I always say and if I may, please allow me to hug you when deem[ed] appropriate if you cannot seem to hug me and rightly so. I hold nothing against you at all and never will.”
Read Pachauri's full interview here: Rajendra Pachauri speaks out over sexual harassment claims
Pachauri was granted an anticipatory bail in the case on March 21, last year. On February 13, last year an FIR was registered against Pachauri on charges of sexual harassment under IPC sections 354, 354(a), 354(d) (molestation) and 506 (criminal intimidation)
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