Pachauri gets permission to travel to U.S.

A lower court here on Saturday allowed the Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) Director-General R.K. Pachauri, embroiled in a sexual harassment case filed by a research student, to travel to the U.S. to attend the last rites of his brother-in-law.

Metropolitan Magistrate Shivani Chauhan allowed Professor Pachauri to go abroad from June 29 to July 9. He cannot visit any other country and will have to deposit two sureties of Rs. 2 lakh each.

Professor Pachauri will have to submit his travel itinerary and photocopies of his passport and tickets to the court before his departure. The court also directed him to inform the Indian Embassy in the U.S. of his arrival.