A woman, who has lodged a sexual harassment complaint against former TERI chief R K Pachauri, today assured a Delhi court that she will not speak to the media about the case until arguments on framing of charges are heard.
The submission was made before Metropolitan Magistrate Charu Gupta in response to an application moved by Pachauri seeking to restrain the complainant from speaking to the media about him and the case.
"The counsel for the complainant (woman) has assured that that he would communicate and endeavour that the victim should not speak to media in regard to the case till argument on charge are heard," the court said.
It also issued a notice to the investigating officer (IO) for not complying with its earlier order, asking to provide copies of certain documents filed along with the charge sheet to Pachauri, after former TERI chief's counsel Ashish Dixit submitted that he was yet to receive the same.
"Counsel for the accused submits that he has not yet been supplied with the annexure to the FSL report... It is stated that these annexure were filed by the IO. As such the IO is directed to supply these annexure to the accused within 15 days," the court said.
The court has now posted the matter for argument on charge on July 19.
The court had on January 10, directed the IO to supply copies of certain documents, including emails and photos filed in the charge sheet, to Pachauri in the case of alleged sexual harassment lodged against him by his ex-colleague.
The former TERI chief had earlier secured an order from an additional district judge that made it mandatory for media houses to publish or telecast the coverage of the case with a title that "In any court the allegations have not been proved and they may not be correct."
The interim order had also said "when such information is published in any page of a magazine or report, then it should be in middle of the page in bold letters and it should be five times larger than the font in which the article is being published."
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