‘From now onwards I shall call you LIFE: Lovely Inspiration of Excessive Fondness.’
This is among the 6,000 SMSes and WhatsApp messages exchanged between alleged sexual harasser RK Pachauri and the complainant between September 2013 and February 2015. Between February 2014 and March 2015, 34 phone calls were made by Pachauri, while the complainant made 26 phone calls to him, reports The Economic Times.
These messages and phone calls have been used as evidence in the 500-page chargesheet prepared and filed by the Delhi Police. The document also concludes that Pachauri ‘misused his office’ and that there is ‘enough evidence to prosecute him’.
I feel completely used at the hands of Dr Pachauri. I feel as though he has used me as a means of amusement to him. He assaulted and violated my modesty and body, on multiple occasions, through unwanted acts of grabbing, hugging, groping, touching and forcefully kissing me within and outside the workplace despite my fervent pleas and requests not to indulge in such behaviour with me, despite my clear and unambiguous refusals.Former TERI Employee
Pachauri has been charged under 354, 354A, 354D and 506.
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