2nd TERI employee accuses Pachauri of indecency

Trouble mounted for R K Pachauri, who is in the thick of a legal battle over sexual harassment allegations, when another woman, a former employee of TERI, on Wednesday came out in public making similar allegations while demands were made for putting on hold his fresh appointment as its Executive Vice Chairman. 

The woman, to whom he had made sexual advances more than 10 years ago, also slammed TERI (The Energy and Resources Institute) on Wednesday for appointing Pachauri to a higher position, Executive Vice Chairman, two days ago. Giving details of the case, her lawyer, Vrinda Grover, said that they had first reported the complaint in February last year with police which did not do anything till date forcing her to come out in public with the charges.  

“Pachauri would use the excuse of work assignments to repeatedly call me to his office room, even though there was no real work that he needed to discuss. “This made me feel very uncomfortable and I used to try to dodge some meetings or ask my colleagues to go for the meetings”, the woman said during a telephonic interview with a television channel. 

When contacted, Pachauri’s lawyer Ashish Dixit said he has not seen the second complaint and he cannot comment. Pachauri is already facing a case in Delhi High Court filed by another former TERI employee of sexual harassment.