‘TERI should have ousted or suspended Pachauri’

A day after environmentalist R.K. Pachauri ‘stepped down’ from TERI’s governing council, lawyer Vrinda Grover on Friday said he should have been asked to step down by authorities or suspended long ago. Pachauri, a former executive chairman of The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), on Thursday issued a statement that “it was time for me to move away and get engaged in other interests which I have harboured over the past few years for activities at the global level”.  The scientist should have been ousted from the organisation long time back when its Internal Complaints Committee (ICC) found him guilty, Grover, who is representing a former TERI employee in sexual harassment case against Pachauri, said.