The Director-General of The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), Rajendra Pachauri, was booked under the case of sexual harassment after a woman research analyst lodged a complaint against him at lodhi Colony police station.
A case under the section 354, 354A, 354D, 506 of the Indian Penal code has been registered against Pachauri on Wednesday late night.
According to a police official, a 29-year-old woman had lodged a complaint before police stating that the 75-year-old had taken her physical advances when she was working under him in 2013.
In a 31-page complaint copy she had also given the contents of the mobile phone messages sent from Pachauri's mobile phone to her.
The complaint which she had given to police said: “I joined Dr Pachauri’s office as a research analyst in september, 2013. At the time of joining him, I was thrilled at the opportunity to work with him.
“Dr Pachauri, at first displayed a charade of friendliness towards me, which soon progressed into repeated and constant requests to have a romantic and physical relations with him. All his actions and words towards me had underlying sexual overtones.”
She also said Dr Pachauri that I was not interested in any such relationship with him on countless occasions, but he refused to give up.