Rajasthan Home Minister Gulab Chand Kataria said yesterday that evidence in the Rakbar Khan case suggested it was a custodial death and the state has taken steps to get a judicial probe conducted.

He added an initial compensation of Rs 1.25 lakh had been ordered for Khan's family. "We've written to the additional chief judicial magistrate to initiate a probe," Kataria said at a press conference here. In cases of custodial death, a committee constituted at the district level takes decisions regarding compensation to the family members of the deceased, Kataria said. He said a sessions judge normally heads such a committee.