Pachauri, 75, resigned from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change last February after a researcher accused him of sexual harassment, an allegation he denied.
He was then removed from his position as head of The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) in July 2015, but was recently reinstated at the think tank in a senior position.
The latest complainant said Pachauri sexually harassed her and her female colleagues at TERI, where she worked between 2003 and 2004, her lawyer Vrinda Grover said.
"The complainant wants to become a witness in the first case and make statements before the police to show that Pachauri was a serial offender,
"She waited for the police to record the statement for almost a year now, but finding them reluctant and seeing Mr Pachauri reinstated at TERI with honours, we have made the statement public," she added.
In an interview with newsmen, the woman said Pachauri made sexual advances to her, forcibly tried to kiss her and gave her a sexually suggestive nickname.
However, Pachauri's lawyer Ashish Dixit rejected the latest allegations, saying the complaint was aimed at prejudicing court proceedings.
He said the complaint had no value unless the woman filed a case with police or formally made the statement in court.
The embattled scientist went on leave after students graduating from TERI University refused to accept their degrees from him in the wake of the controversy, a report said .
As head of the UN climate panel, Pachauri collected the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007, which was jointly awarded to the panel and to former US Vice President, Al Gore for their work on climate change.
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