TERI chief R K Pachauri today informed his TERI colleagues that “there is undoubtedly a cloud which is causing problems for me personally”, in an email sent out this morning.
Pachauri has been named in an FIR lodged in New Delhi by a lady colleague who had accused him of sexual harassment.
He added “…but I would like to assure colleagues that I am working on fighting this problem effectively.”
The FIR was lodged on Wednesday, but Pachauri received interim relief against arrest on Thursday from the Delhi High Court enabling him to approach a lower court for anticipatory bail by February 23.
Pachauri had received the Nobel in 2007 on behalf of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Read the email text.
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