Court allows Pachauri to travel abroad

A city court has allowed TERI director deneral RK Pachauri, facing sexual harassment allegation from a former woman colleague, to travel later this week to the US and Guyana to attend meetings.

Metropolitan Magistrate Shivani Chauhan allowed Pachauri’s plea, seeking permission to attend conferences in California till January 16 and then in Guyana till January 21.

The court granted him permission with a direction that he will make himself available for investigation as required. “The accused (Pachauri) is permitted to travel, as per his itinerary as stated above, subject to furnishing of one local surety of Rs 4 lakh to the satisfaction of this court and upon furnishing an undertaking that he will make himself available to the investigating officer as per her requirement upon service of notice on him by the IO,” the court said.