AHMEDABAD: Hours after the girl who has complained of being gang-raped in a moving SUV in Satellite made serious allegations against special police commissioner of the city crime branch, J K Bhatt, on Sunday, a photograph showing minister of state for home Pradipsinh Jadeja with the father of one of the accused went viral.The 22-year-old girl’s father held a press conference during which she alleged that Bhatt was favouring the accused. She demanded a probe by an independent agency. “J K Bhatt asked me questions that must never be put to rape victims,” she said. “He told me that inserting wood in private parts cannot be termed rape. Because of such questions, rape survivors commit suicide rather than go to the police. Even I thought of committing suicide at one stage.” The girl says she was confined and raped in Satellite and Ghodasar areas of the city.In the photograph which went viral, minister Jadeja is seen receiving a bouquet from Mahavir Dalmiya, the father of one of the accused, Gaurav. “Many people had come to greet me when I became the minister. It is possible he visited me at that time,” Jadeja said. “Somebody told me that the meeting could have occurred during the Salasar mass marriage ceremony. At any rate, he is definitely not in my circle. I have directed the police to take strict action against anyone found guilty.”Jadeja issued a statement on Sunday, three days after the rape complaint was filed. “The Satellite rape case is very sad and sensitive incident in which stern action will be taken without any favours,” he had stated.In the press conference, the girl alleged that Bhatt had asked her why she had gone to Nehrunagar on the day the crime was committed. “He even raised his voice on multiple occasions and tried to force me to change the rape FIR into a cheating complaint,” she said. “Bhatt told me that I had conspired to file the rape complaint because I had broken up with one of the accused. He even said that had he been in my position, he would have done the same.” The girl said the probe should be headed by a woman police official.In response to the allegations against Bhatt, city police commissioner A K Singh held a press conference on Sunday evening, and said that while the allegations were a blot on the city police, he had full faith in his team.“While we will investigate the allegations, our primary duty is to bring out the truth,” Singh said. “There are a lot of contradictions in the material evidence gathered by us, and in the details mentioned in the FIR.” Evidence comprises CCTV footage, call records, location and mobile forensics.Singh said that he does not want to send the case for trial with contradictory evidence and wants to strengthen the case by seeking clarifications from the victim. “Our team will win the trust of the victim once again and proceed in the correct direction,” he said. “I would prefer slow progress in the probe rather than going wrong. An FIR is the beginning of the probe and not the end of it.”