A mortuary attendant who assisted with the autopsies of four members of a family killed in Rangpur has claimed that he saw material resembling semen on the bodies of two female victims.
However, laboratory tests on samples collected during the autopsies found no sperm, according to the doctor who conducted the examinations.
Jatin Roy, the mortuary attendant, made the claim in a video that circulated on social media on Tuesday.
In the video, Jatin said he saw material coming out of the bodies of Pritilata Chakraborty and her daughter, Parthi Chakraborty Agami, which he believed looked like semen.
“The doctor told me to check whether anything was there. I saw something coming out that looked like semen. Then he told me to preserve it, so I preserved it,” Jatin said.
He said the doctor had instructed him to collect a vaginal swab.
“When it came out, the doctor said it was a vaginal swab and told me to take it out. I took it out. I preserved what came out from the girl, which I thought was semen. I also saw the girl’s mother; a little swab-like material came out from her as well,” he said.
Doctor says tests found no sperm
Bablu Kumar Biswas, assistant professor of the Department of Forensic Medicine at Rangpur Medical College and the doctor who conducted the autopsies, said samples were collected because of suspicions that the two women may have been sexually assaulted.
“We had our suspicions—whether there had been rape and whether there was any sperm. We were instructed to collect a swab, and he [the mortuary attendant] collected it,” Bablu said.
He said the material observed by the attendant appeared to him to resemble something coming from the swab.
However, the samples were preserved and sent to the microbiology laboratory for examination.
“The report came back negative. No sperm was found. The autopsy report is ready,” the doctor said.
Four family members found dead
Late Saturday night, the bodies of retired teacher Ganapati Chakraborty, 65; his wife, Pritilata Chakraborty, 50; their daughter, Parthi Chakraborty Agami, 25; and their son, Priyam Chakraborty Ayush, 12, were recovered from the roof, attic and rooms of their home in Machuapara, Rangpur city.
Ganapati had retired from Rangpur Zilla School in December and later provided homeopathic medical services.
According to relatives, they went to the house after being unable to contact any member of the family for two days.
They found the main gate locked and the entire house dark. After entering the house, they discovered the bodies of all four family members.
On Sunday, Ganapati’s elder brother, Gopinath Chakraborty, filed a case with the Kotwali police station of Rangpur Metropolitan Police.
The investigation has since been handed over to members of the Detective Branch (DB) of the metropolitan police.
