A search for pair produced charged Higgs bosons has been performed in the high energy data collected by DELPHI at LEP with $\sqrt{s} =$ 161, 172 and 183~GeV. The analysis uses the $\tau \nu \tau \nu$, $c \bar s \tau \nu$ and $c \bar s \bar c s$ final states and a combination of event shape variables, di-jet masses and jet flavour tagging for the separation of a possible signal from the dominant W$^+$W$^-$ and QCD backgrounds. The number of selected events has been found to be compatible with the expected background. The lower excluded value of the H$^{\pm}$ mass obtained by varying the H$^{\pm} \rightarrow$ hadrons decay branching ratio has been found to be 56.3~GeV/$c^2$.

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