A Norwegian national was found dead in a hotel room where he was staying along with his wife and relatives of Indian origin, police said on Saturday.
Qystein Hodne (34), a taxi driver in Norway, was part of a 10-member group which arrived on February 7 to visit the Pink City.
They all were scheduled to leave for Delhi on Friday but on Thursday morning he was found in unconscious state in his room. Hodne had consumed liquor in the night and had apparently fallen from the bed. When his father-in-law Bhagwan Singh, who originally hails from Fatehabad in Haryana, and wife Jaswinder tried to wake up, he did not react.
Bhagwan Singh said in his written report to the police that a doctor who examined Hodne in the morning declared that he was no more and suspected cardiac arrest to be a possible cause of the death. Singh also informed police that Hodne had consumed liquor on Wednesday night.
"We rushed Hodne to a nearby government hospital where doctors declared him brought dead. After permission from the Embassy of Norway, post-mortem of the body was conducted.”
"Viscera has been preserved and anything regarding the exact cause of the death will be clear only after report," Kushal Singh, SHO, Vidhyadhar Nagar said.
"Doctors opined in initial reports that excessive liquor or an internal injury he received in head after he fell off his bed could be the reasons behind his death," he said.
Deputy Commissioner of Police, Jaipur North, Ashok Naruka, said that a representative of the embassy of Norway will come and after due procedure, the body will be sent to Norway.