New Delhi: In a shocking incident, which cynically mocks at the punch-line of India Tourism's advertising campaign ‘Atithi Devo Bhava' (Guest is equal to God), a French national, who was beaten up in a crowded train and thrown on a railway platform in the norther India some days back, succumbed to death at a hospital on Thursday. What has further confounded the mysterious circumstances in which Frank Wilfred, 23, was found beaten on the platform of Karnal railway station, in the northern Indian state of Haryana, was that all his identification papers and other travel documents were found on a railway department ticket checker, who has been arrested. Wilfred was traveling on board the Sachkand express which originates in the Western Indian state of Maharashtra which runs up to Amritsar the capital of the Punjab when he was allegedly beaten up by passengers traveling on the train on Sunday. Police said that Wilfred was later thrown on a platform at Karnal, where he remained without medication for a while, before he was shifted to hospital and had been in a state of coma until he passed out earlier today. Speaking to reporters V Kamraj, a senior Railway Police official said that an investigation was being conducted into Wilfred's death. Manoj Kumar, the ticket checker, on whom Wilfred's documents were found has been arrested by the police and has been remanded to two days in police custody. Kumar, who maintains that he is innocent, has however failed to satisfactorily explain to the police how he came to possess the dead Frenchman's documents.
