Medical report says athlete Pinki Pramanik is male, police file rape case

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Kolkata, Nov 12, 2012: The medical report of Pinki Pramanik suggests that the athlete is male. The police have submitted a chargesheet against Pinki Pramanik at Barasat Court alongside the medical report, charging the athlete with rape and cheating.

Pinki’s medical tests were performed by a board of doctors at the SSKM hospital in Kolkata. Pinki was arrested and jailed after the athlete’s former live-in partner accused that she had been raped by the athlete. The athlete was freed from the jail on bail on July 11, 2012.

Pinki was arrested on June 14 following allegations of rape. The former middle-distance runner, who had won the 4x400m relay gold in the 2006 Doha Asian Games, has been accused of being a male and of allegedly raping her live-in partner. Her 30-year-old line-in partner, an estranged woman, had alleged that Pinki was in fact a male following which the athlete was made to undergo gender determination tests.

Courtesy: IBN Live