{"id":246796,"date":"2024-08-18T21:04:55","date_gmt":"2024-08-18T15:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=246796"},"modified":"2024-08-19T13:50:00","modified_gmt":"2024-08-19T08:20:00","slug":"150-gram-semen-found-in-r-g-kar-victims-body-no-post-mortem-report-mentions-weight-of-genitalia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/150-gram-semen-found-in-r-g-kar-victims-body-no-post-mortem-report-mentions-weight-of-genitalia\/","title":{"rendered":"150 grams semen found in R G Kar victim’s body? No, post-mortem report mentions weight of genitalia"},"content":{"rendered":"

A week into the alleged rape and murder of a doctor<\/a> (a postgraduate trainee) at Kolkata’s R G Kar Medical College and Hospital, several theories have surfaced in public discourse about the circumstances in which she was killed. The claim that about 150 grams of semen was found in the victim’s body has gone viral on social media and messaging apps such as WhatsApp. Some media outlets also reported it.<\/p>\n

In an interview with Barkha Dutt on Mojo Story<\/a> published on August 16, a physician named Subarna Goswami claimed that 150 grams of white liquid that appeared to be semen was found in the body during post-mortem (PM) examination.<\/p>\n

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Around the 23-minute mark in<\/a> the interview, Dutt asks Goswami if there could be more than one perpetrator. The doctor claims that the victim’s parents had shared the original post-mortem report with him. After talking about the various injuries mentioned in it, he adds<\/a>, “They also collected white thick viscid fluid from deep inside the vagina which weighing 151 grams.. 151 grams. and even if it is mixed with some other body fluid like vaginal discharge or you know maybe mucus or some other tissues, but this much amount of semen.. it appears to be semen.. it is to be proved in the forensic lab only.. but this white thick viscid fluid appears to semen as penetration was there… it is clearly written hymen was ruptured at 10 o’clock position… and penetration was there. So it must be semen, nothing other than semen. So this much amount of semen.. it cannot come out from a single rapist. There is every possibility of the involvement of multiple rapists…” (sic<\/em>)<\/p>\n

Goswami is the additional general secretary of the All India Federation of Govt Doctors’ Association. The video has 44,000 views on YouTube. The remarks made by Goswami were carried by multiple media outlets, including the New York Times<\/a>, India Today<\/a>, Business Today<\/a>, The Times of India<\/a>, and Firstpost<\/a> among others.<\/p>\n

The claim was also made by the victim’s lawyer in the petition filed in the court. The concerned point in the petition reads, “The presence of 150 mg of semen in the hymen, a quantity suggesting involvement of more than one individual, further corroborated the suspicion of gang rape.”<\/p>\n

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The lawyer representing the family, senior CPI(M) leader Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharya asserted in a video interview<\/a> that the PM report said 150mg white liquid was found in the body. He adds that he never made the assertion that the liquid was semen.<\/p>\n

The claim is viral on X (formerly Twitter). Here are some of the tweets which make the claim that 150 grams of semen was found in the victim’s body:<\/p>\n