New Delhi: TERI boss RK Pachauri faced fresh trouble on Wednesday with another former employee raising sexual harassment charges against him.
The woman employee, who worked with TERI for a year from 2003, released a letter saying Pachauri used to make "verbal and physical sexual advances" towards her.
"I had been sexually harassed by him and had seen him behave extremely indecently with other women at TERI too," she said in her letter.
She alleged that on one occasion he forcibly held her and kissed her on the face.
Her letter has details on how Pachauri gave her a suggestive nickname and how he would crack sexually implicit comments.
"A lot of us were called names and touched appropriately by him," she told CNN-IBN.
She said she tried looking for a job elsewhere due to Pachauri’s "misconduct and sexual advances", but he threatened her even after she submitted her resignation letter.
This comes a day after the complainant in the first sexual harassment case hit out against TERI's governing council for promoting Pachauri as executive vice chairman when he was still facing charges.
The second woman said she contacted the Delhi Police through her lawyer Vrinda Grover in February last year for recording a statement but she never heard from them.
She also alleged that women at TERI's HR too were subjected to harassment and that her attempts to raise the matter with the organisation's administration then went in vain.
Pachauri is already facing a case in Delhi High Court filed by another former TERI employee accusing him of sexual harassment. He has denied the charges.
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Following the complaint, he went on leave from TERI, but came back after challenging the internal complaints committee's probe which found him guilty of sexual harassment.
Two days ago, Pachauri was promoted to the newly created post in TERI by a governing council which comprises, among others, HDFC chairman Deepak Parekh and former HSBC chairperson Naina Lal Kidwai.
The decision was widely criticised, especially on social media.
Silence of IndianSociety on RKPachauri is disturbing.Victim gets resignation &Pachauri gets promotion.#DoubleStandards of societyExposed agn— Sudhir Chaudhary (@sudhirchaudhary) February 10, 2016
Even if #TERI board thinks Pachauri deserves fair probe it shd've kept him out meanwhile. In saving a man they're destroying an institution— Shekhar Gupta (@ShekharGupta) February 9, 2016
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