Chandigarh: A French citizen who was beaten unconscious while traveling on a train in Haryana has died in hospital in Chandigarh. He was 33.
The police have arrested a train conductor, Manoj Kumar, for allegedly attacking Wilfred and charged him with attempted murder. The French man's passport was recovered from Mr Kumar.
Police Inspector-General V. Kamraj said Wilfred was found on Sunday, bleeding with head injuries at the Karnal train station where he had been dumped from a train. The Government Railway Police (GRP) personnel found him unconscious and rushed him to a hospital in Karnal. Doctors there then asked for him to be moved to a hospital in Chandigarh, where he was in a coma for three days till he died.
Wilfred had boarded the train in New Delhi, but police did not know his destination. The Sachkhand Express runs between Nanded (Maharashtra) and Amritsar in Punjab.
The conductor claims he is innocent and told the police that other passengers attacked Wilfred after he teased a woman on the train.
The police have arrested a train conductor, Manoj Kumar, for allegedly attacking Wilfred and charged him with attempted murder. The French man's passport was recovered from Mr Kumar.
Police Inspector-General V. Kamraj said Wilfred was found on Sunday, bleeding with head injuries at the Karnal train station where he had been dumped from a train. The Government Railway Police (GRP) personnel found him unconscious and rushed him to a hospital in Karnal. Doctors there then asked for him to be moved to a hospital in Chandigarh, where he was in a coma for three days till he died.
The conductor claims he is innocent and told the police that other passengers attacked Wilfred after he teased a woman on the train.
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