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RK Pachauri sexual harassment case: Court reserves order

| | Mar 21, 2015, at 11:03 pm
New Delhi, Mar 21 (IBNS): A Delhi court on Saturday reserved its order on police plea to cancel interim protection from arrest granted to environmentalist RK Pachauri, who is accused of sexual assault.

The court has also directed Pachauri to join the police probe.

Pachauri was earlier granted anticipatory bail, which provides him protection from arrest till Mar 27.

While, this was a respite for him, the court had banned him from his Delhi-based think tank The Energy Resources Institute (TERI) and said he cannot leave the country without permission.

He has been accused of sexual harassment by a 29-year-old researcher of TERI of which Pachauri is the director.

The 74-year-old environmentalist, who denied the accusation, had stepped down as chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Pachauri had held the post of the chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change since 2002, and the organisation was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007.

In an FIR, the Teri researcher accused Pachauri of harassing her by way of sending emails and SMS and WhatsApp messages.

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