The ‘sex tales’ of this Kolkata house is more bizarre than anything you’ve heard before

The gory discovery of the charred body of a 44 year-old engineer’s father (77), who burnt himself to death and several notes found scattered all over the bunglow, has opened a can full of controversies surrounding a complex relationship among his family members. The police also found that Partha had been living with the skeleton of his sister and carcasses of his two pet dogs.

The notes were full of sexual overtones, often containing explicit physical descriptions. Psychiatrists, however, advise caution and say that Partha may have written the notes in a state of delusion. They don’t rule out other possibilities but they would rather wait a few weeks to assess his mental state to sift truth from hallucination.

In some of the jottings, it is clear that Partha had sensed his mother's growing concern over his physical closeness with his elder sister and expressed his dislike for his mother, the police said.

Psychiatrist Sabyasachi Mitra who examined Partha at Pavlov Mental Hospital on Friday said he may have necrophilia — a condition that triggers sexual attraction towards corpses. "Rather than what he has mentioned in his diaries, Partha De might have been in a physical relationship with the dead bodies he has been living with. It is not yet established, but such behaviour is not unusual on the part of psychosis patients," he told TOI. Investigators have decided to take the help of a psychiatrist when they question Partha in hospital on Saturday.

Among the bizarre things police have noticed is that Partha, his father Arabindo De and sister Debjani conversed with each other through handwritten notes. There are just so many of them that the police are confused who wrote what to whom. Experts are being roped in to sort the writings and establish lines of 'conversation'.



The ones accepted as Partha's writings are a mixed pack of conflicting comments about his mother and mysterious references to a maid. Sometimes Partha mixes up his mother with his grandmother and he talks endearingly of both on these occasions. He narrates how his mother fought against breast cancer till her death in 2007 and claims he could not attend his mother's last rites.

Investigators have also found several drawing books with "Partha De" inscribed on the cover. "It's as if a Class 1 kid has drawn them. We have found hundreds of CDs relating to spiritual gurus from Bengal, Europe and US. We also found several comics — from Archies to Amar Chitra Katha and Mahabharat. Many of them had fresh labels of a bookstore on Lord Sinha Road," said an officer.

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