AIDWA registers shock and protest at the news that the Delhi-based internationally-known organization TERI has decided to appoint R.K.Pachauri to the post of Executive Vice-chairman in spite of the sexual harassment case pending against him since last year. At that time, Mr. Pachauri, a world-famous climate scientist had gone on leave from TERI and had also stepped down from the post of the chief of IPCC, UN's top body on climate change and from the PM's body of advisors on climate change. Now TERI has a new DG, but the reinstallation of Mr. Pachauri, an extremely influential person, to the newly-created post, at a moment when the investigation is incomplete and the hearing to take place in the Delhi High Court, is likely to prejudice the case and intimidate the complainant who is a young woman who had been working in the same institution. AIDWA condemns this move and demands that all efforts to reinstate Mr. Pachauri be put on hold until the Court gives its verdict, so that the complainant may have a fair hearing and proper measures for ensuring justice may be taken.
