Bhubaneswar: The state government has ordered a judicial probe into the Kunduli gang-rape case after the 14-year-old girl accused the director-general of police of trying to bribe her and get her signature on a blank paper, apparently to influence the case.

The girl had alleged that director-general of police R.P. Sharma had tried to offer her Rs 90,000 in cash while she was admitted at SCB Medical College in Cuttack. Sharma, in a press note, had denied the incident and described the allegations as "false, fabricated, malicious and motivated". He had denied ever meeting or interacting with the complainant at any stage.

The girl, who was raped on October 10 last year at Kunduli in Koraput district, alleged that four uniformed men had gang-raped her at gunpoint in the Lanjiguda forest while she was on her way to school. The police had subsequently denied involvement of any uniformed people in the incident. Later, the police even denied the incident of gang-rape taking place.

At one stage, the girl, who had refused to return home and is living in a short-stay home in Koraput, accused the police of trying to harass her family members and friends in its efforts to hush up the case.

Although the case was being handled by the state crime branch, the Congress and others have been seeking a judicial probe, accusing the police of trying to hush up matter.

The district judge of Koraput will hold the commission of inquiry and complete the probe within three months, an official notification said.

The judicial probe will try to find "the sequence of events alleged to have led to the purported crime", the persons responsible for the incident and "any other matter connected with or incident thereto, as the commission may consider appropriate".

A case was registered at Pottangi police station under Sections 376 (D), 377 of the IPC and Section 6 of the Pocso Act.