Rakbar's death 'looks custodial': Rajasthan Home Minister on Alwar lynching case

Rajasthan Home Minister Gulab Chand Kataria on Tuesday said that Rakbar Khan's death "looks custodial". "According to the evidence we have collected, it looks like a custodial death. Further investigation is underway," Kataria told media.

Kataria also met with the victim's family earlier today, "they told me that they are satisfied with the action taken so far. I told them to come and meet me whenever they want if they want to tell me something more," Kataria further added on the Alwar lynching case.

Kataria blamed the police for the delay in providing medical attention to the victim.

"It was not the duty of the police to send cows to cow-shed first, they should have taken the injured to the hospital first. They wasted time in sending the cows to cow-shed. He could have been saved, efforts could have been made," Kataria told ANI.

"We the members of the medical board after careful examination of a dead body are of opinion that the cause of death, in this case, is shock as a result of ante-mortem injuries sustained over body mentioned in PMR. However, visceras are preserved to rule out any intoxication prior to death or pre-existing disease," read a combined statement of three doctors in the postmortem report.

The autopsy further stated that the 28-year-old victim suffered 13 injuries in total, including eight bruises, two abrasions, a laceration, a fracture in the wrist and another in left femur.

Khan died on the intervening night of July 20-21.

(With inputs from ANI)