Kolkata: Â West Bengal Police has filed a chargesheet against famous female athlete Pinki Pramanik accusing her of raping her live in partner.
The Police has cited  a medical report that claimed that Pinki Pramanik was not Female.
The police chargesheet was based on the opinion of a seven-member medical board constituted to confirm the athlete’s gender in June following allegations by her live-in partner that she was “actually a male” who had raped her repeatedly.
The formal set of charges was filed in the court of chief judicial magistrate at Barasat town in North 24 Parganas district.
Pinki is now on bail.
Additional Public Prosecutor Santomoy Bose said after the hearing: “I have seen the report…from the doctors’ opinion it can be concluded that Pinki is a male.”
The chargesheet also accused Pinki of torture, cheating, co-habiting with the promise of marriage and threat to the complainant not to disclose their relationship.
The athlete was arrested June 14 and remanded to judicial custody the next day after the athlete’s live-in partner, a divorcee and a mother of one, filed the police complaint.
Pinki was later taken to a private nursing home for a medical check-up where the test reports claimed that the athlete was indeed a male. The athlete was taken to the Barasat district hospital and finally to the state-run SSKM Hospital here for the tests.
As SSKM Hospital did not have facilities for chromosome pattern test, the samples were sent to Hyderabad where the examination was done.
Pinki later alleged that she was treated like an animal during gender tests which were done by tying her hands and feet.
The treatment meted out to the athlete had then attracted severe criticism from all quarters, including the sporting fraternity.
Meanwhile Pinki Pramanik is heavily tortured by the behavior of Police and other authorities in past several months. She alleges a huge conspiracy behind the sequence of events and hinted that she would be forced to commit suicide if  this type of atrocities continues against her.
Pinki said that contrary to the police claim, the medical report had concluded that she was incapable of committing rape. However, she said despite requests, she had not been given a copy of the medical report.
“Police have plotted a huge conspiracy against me. They are trying to force me into committing suicide,” said Pinki, after police filed a chargesheet in the chief judicial magistrate’s court in North 24 Parganas district’s Barasat.
The chargesheet said Pinki was a male and accused the athlete of raping her live-in partner.
The chargesheet was based on the opinion of the seven-member medical board which had been constituted at the state-run SSK Hospital to confirm the athlete’s gender in June following allegations from her live-in partner that she was “actually a male” who had raped her repeatedly.
“As per my knowledge, the board had said I had symptoms of excess male hormones as after-effect of some of the drugs I had taken during my sports career,” Pinki said.
The athlete was arrested June 14 and remanded to judicial custody the next day after her companion, a divorcee and a mother of one, filed the police complaint.
After the arrest, Pinki was taken to a private nursing home for a medical check-up where the test reports claimed that the athlete was indeed a male. The athlete was taken to the Barasat district hospital and finally to the SSK Hospital for the tests.
Pinki was granted bail July 10 and released a day later after spending 26 days in judicial custody.
Pinki, who retired from athletics three years ago, won gold in the 4×400 metres relay at the 2006 Asian Games in Doha, Qatar. Pinki was a silver medallist at the Melbourne Commonwealth Games the same year.