Note: this isn’t the High Court legal law case that has been decided, as that remains, but his own company’s internal investigation.
New Delhi: An internal committee of The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) found its director general RK Pachauri guilty in a sexual harassment case.
Reportedly, the three-member panel of Internal Complaints Committee (ICC) found that Pachauri made repeated attempts at establishing a personal bond with the young woman colleague, which caused her “harassment”.
The panel also noted that when the woman resisted, Pachauri retaliated by ‘taking away her work’.
TERI committee recommended disciplinary action against the accused.
Last week, the Delhi High Court refused to cancel immediately the anticipatory bail granted by a trial court to Pachauri.
The matter has been posted for July 16 after the counsel for Pachauri sought more time to file response to the application move by the 29-year-old woman, who has alleged that “free and fair investigation” cannot be carried out if Pachauri is “allowed to roam around freely.”
The complainant had moved the High Court seeking cancellation of the anticipatory bail granted to Pachauri by the trial court in the case. The complainant’s counsel alleged before the court that Pachauri was “dictating what needs to be said to witnesses” in the case.
He claimed there was “overwhelming evidence” against Pachauri that he misused the bail conditions. A criminal case on charges of sexual harassment, stalking and criminal intimidation was registered against Pachauri on February 18 by the police.
Full story at http://www.deccanchronicle.com/150528/nation-current-affairs/article/teris-internal-panel-finds-rk-pachauri-guilty-sexual
h/t to Josh
Now let’s see if people of his flock like William Connolley have the courage to allow this on Patchy’s Wikipedia page
Pachauri is neither a Nobel laureate nor a climate scientist
Two facts seem to emerge: 1. He has been found guilty of employment protocol transgressions by the internal TERI inquiry; 2. He is charged on four counts under the Penal Code which have imprisonment remedies. (Those four are sexual assault, harassment, stalking, and criminal intimidation/threats.)
The ramifications of these 2 facts to the skeptical community are that we were right about the corruption inherent in this leader. Therefore, his motives regards power, authority, socialism, defending Gaia, and changing life as we know it are all polluted by arrogance, stupidity, lust and fantasy. The man has soiled himself in public, at one of the highest political levels on the planet. He deserves neither sympathy nor mercy. His inept and inappropriate actions are laid bare in his personal life, and by implication his public life (against which skeptics’ previous protestations have been numerous).
This reminds me a bit of Al Capone–grossly corrupt and guilty of violating many laws, but imprisoned on a tax evasion charge. Oh, yes, I’m totally speculating on the “guilty of violating many laws” relative to Pachauri.
I will however, do my best in this particular case of sexual harassment, to let the course of events play out since there are plenty of legal proceedings to go and it seems my US standard of “innocent until proven guilty” should apply even here. After all, there are a reasonable number of sexual harassment charges that are totally fabricated. This was the result of an internal investigation and likely carries some weight but I have no idea as to the honesty and motives of TERI. I’ll wait, rather than rush to judgement on this.
Bruce
And by the way…
I was in no way trying to suggest by my comments above that real sexual harassment is in any way not a serious offense. This may turn out to be a case of real sexual harassment. I’m just waiting until the final verdict on the charges.
Bruce
‘Now let’s see if people of his flock like William Connolley have the courage to allow this on’
You mean the insignificant and minor employee of the UN , has his Wiki papge will no doubt claim he was !
“Those who control the present, control the past and those who control the past control the future.”
― George Orwell, 1984
Its a good book and for some a warning , but for others a training manual on how to , and Connolley comes very much into that second group.
You all misunderstand. This is just a “pause” in Pachauri’s decent behavior.
So… In the minds of the Greens; Pachauri’s decent behavior continues unabated. This “pause” is not even really happening, you’re just making that up. Look at this graph I just made. See, his decent behavior is super-exponential.
He clearly perceives what is right and proper to be subjective. Does this extend to other fields too?
Keep it in perspective by looking at the cosmologists. Halton Arp has identified some 40 quasars as having proper motion (i.e., close enough to measure their relative change in positon). Yet the mainstream cosmologists hang on to their red shift belief, and continue to push their bogus theory (and its ancillary but necessary bogus subtheories), in related issues such as dark matter, dark energy, expanding space, multi dimension reality, ….. etc.
It’s yet another story for the next round of that book “The Madness of Crowds…”:
What happened to the rug? Last photo I saw he had a rug.