Pinki's partner says she falsely accused her of rape!

Pinki Pramanik's former live-in partner took a complete U-turn on Friday saying that she had falsely accused Pinki at the behest of Avtar Singh, husband of former Asian Games medallist and ex-CPM MP Jyotirmoyee Sikdar.

She said that Avtar Singh had some land dispute with Pramanik, for which he needed to prove that Pinki was a male. This comes after Bengal sports minister Madan Mitra claimed a few day back that a person who was arrested in 2004 had tried to grab the lands of the sportspersons allocated by the Left Front government in 2006.

Singh's wife Sikdar had spoken out against her arrest said that her husband was not involved and the current regime was trying to implicate him falsely. But Pinki's former partner described the story which led to Pramanik's arrest. "After a tiff over payments, Singh told me over phone we need to show the world Pinki is a male," the woman told a leading daily, hinting that the plan was to portray Pramanik as a fraud and pack her off to prison.

"Their problem started after Pinki demanded more money for the plot of land where Singh is building a high-rise. Singh paid her a part of the Rs 30 lakh Pinki demanded but their bickering continued," she said.

The formed gold medallist had a horrid time in recent weeks. She was kept in a male jail, forced to take gender determination tests and even had an MMS clip released while undergoing one of these tests. The treatment meted out to her came under severe criticism from various avenues. All her gender tests were inconclusive and the courts deemed that she was 'incapable' of rape. The final verdict said that she was genetically almost male.

Is Pinki male or female? The answer isn't that simple.