Sexual harassment case: Pachauri sent 6,000 'love' messages to colleague
New Delhi: The messages sent by TERI chief R K Pachauri to a former colleague reveal how he troubled and stalked her for almost two years, according to a DNA report.
The Delhi police attached a copy of the messages to the chargesheet filed in a court on March 4. The messages range from creepy to disturbing and some are utter explicit.
The report states that according to a friend's statement, the "accused used to harass the victim by sending emails, calls, SMS and calling her with sexually coloured remarks and also insisted for her to respond. Emails and messages were quite disturbing as they had words like "Meri Jaan" and "I love you." He (Pachauri) went on to use explicit "words which are totally unacceptable.”
The report further said that most messages started with "Dearest Meri Jaan" and one of the message read: "Well the truth is that I have never felt so overwhelmingly in love as I have been with you, and even though you gave me so much pain, I will always be your well-wisher and carry beautiful memories of the joyous moments between us, limited as they might have been."
The chargesheet running into over 1400 pages was filed in the court of Metropolitan Magistrate Shivani Chauhan who has fixed it for consideration on April 23.
Pachauri has also been accused of stalking and criminally intimidating the victim with gesture or act intended to insult her modesty.
Police has arrayed 23 prosecution witnesses, many of whom are present and former employees of The Energy Research Institute (TERI).
Pachauri has been accused of committing offences punishable under sections 354 (assault or criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty), 354 A (sexual harassment), 354 D (stalking), 506 (criminal intimidation) and 509 (word, gesture or act intended to insult the modesty of a woman) of IPC.
Police in its report filed in the Delhi High Court recently has said that an out-of-court settlement was proposed to the victim.
The status report was filed in the matter in which the victim has sought quashing of anticipatory bail of Pachauri granted by the trial court in the case.
Delhi police said there is "sufficient evidence" against Pachauri that he sexually harassed, stalked and threatened his former woman colleague.
Pachauri was granted an anticipatory bail in the case on March 21, last year.
On February 13, last year an FIR was registered against Pachauri on charges of sexual harassment under IPC sections 354, 354(a), 354(d) (molestation) and 506 (criminal intimidation).
