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Mumbai: In the first big setback to former TERI Chief facing charges of sexual harassment, RK Pachauri, TIMES NOW has accessed a 55-page forensic report which proves that the alleged sexual messages under suspicion were in fact, genuine.

Mr Pachauri, who has somehow remained above question till now, has been accusing the victim of framing him, as he has maintained that the inappropriate messages he purportedly sent to the victim were faked.

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While Pachauri defended himself by claiming that his devices had been hacked or interfered with, the Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) Gandhinagar in November 2016 submitted a confidential report to Delhi Police stating that his claims are unfounded.

Delhi Police in March 2016 filed a charge sheet in a court against TERI Executive Vice Chairman RK Pachauri for alleged sexual harassment and outraging the modesty of a former woman colleague.

Pachauri was also accused of stalking and criminally intimidating the victim with gesture or act intended to insult her modesty.

The charge sheet running into over 1,400 pages was filed in the court of Metropolitan Magistrate Shivani Chauhan who has fixed it for consideration on April 23.

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Police had arrayed 23 prosecution witnesses, many of whom are present and former employees of The Energy Research Institute (TERI).

Pachauri has been accused of committing offences punishable under sections 354(assault or criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty), 354 A (sexual harassment), 354 D (stalking), 506(criminal intimidation) and 509(word, gesture or act intended to insult the modesty of a woman) of IPC.

One of the complainants in the sexual harassment case against RK Pachauri had provided an elaborate account of her experience in the statement she recorded before a judicial magistrate in February last year.

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