Asian Games gold medallist Pinki Pramanik on Wednesday walked out of jail after 26 days and said she was falsely implicated in the rape case. “My roommate used to blackmail me over my photographs and now she framed me.” “I will consult my lawyer and decide my next course of action. I have been framed and that woman is still trying to frame me,” Pramanik said.
Pinki also claimed injustice as she said she was arrested without a medical test. “I was sent to jail without carrying out a medical test. I will never forget the days spent in jail,” Pinki said.
“I was treated like an animal in hospital that administered gender test,” Pramanik told reporters after her release.
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, the results of which are yet to be made public.
Pinki, after her arrest, was initially taken to a private nursing home in Barasat under police custody and later to the Barasat General Hospital for gender tests but the reports were inconclusive as the the athelete was subsequently referred the SSKM Hospital.
But the gender of the athlete could not be determined at the state-run hospital as the facility for the chromosome pattern test was unavailable.
A video clipping purpotedly of the athlete showing her in the nude was circulated as a PIL was moved in the Calcutta High Court on July 6. The court directed the West Bengal government to file an affidavit within two weeks on the progress of the investigation.