Sex-Harassment Case Filed Against Former UN Climate Official

Indian police have charged the U.N. climate panel's former chairman, Rajendra Pachauri, with sexually harassing a woman he worked with at a New Delhi energy institute.Police filed the case Tuesday in a Delhi court, after investigating a complaint by one of Pachauri's colleagues at The Energy Research Institute when he headed the environmental think tank, Press Trust of India said.
Pachauri has denied the allegations, but resigned last year from both the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and from TERI after the woman's allegations were published in Indian newspapers and caused a public uproar. His appointment last month to another top post at TERI renewed outrage, and a second woman came forward with allegations of sexual harassment against him.
The court scheduled an initial hearing on April 23.