DHAKA: A Japanese woman has told Indian police she was raped by a tourist guide in the historic northern city of Jaipur, in the latest sex attack on a foreigner.

An officer said Monday, reports The Straits Times.

‘We have received a complaint from a Japanese tourist alleging rape by a local man yesterday (Sunday),’ police inspector general Dharam Chand Jain told the media.

Moreover, a mentally-challenged woman was savagely raped and murdered last week in Rohtak town 80 km from Delhi, in an incident that is being compared to the 2012 Delhi gang-rape, reports NDTV.

The 28-year-old woman’s body was found in a field near the Rohtak-Delhi highway on February 4, half eaten, with key organs missing. The police said objects had been inserted into her; sticks, stones and condoms were stuffed into her private parts.

The body was found three days after the woman, who had been living with her sister while being treated at a hospital, was reported missing.

‘The police did not take my complaint seriously. They said you keep looking for her...you will find her or maybe she will return. If they had acted promptly, she would have been alive,’ the woman’s sister said, adding, ‘We want the killers to be hanged’.

She led a candlelit vigil in Rohtak on Saturday. On Sunday evening, protesters blocked the national highway after details emerged of the brutal attack and the apparent reluctance of the police to act when she was first reported missing.

The police have announced a Rs. 1 lakh reward for information on the attackers.

‘There are some good clues but I don’t want to give any running commentary because that will go against the case,’ said Mohammad Akil Ahmed, a senior Rohtak police officer.

India has been under the spotlight in recent years over a spurt in incidents of sexual violence against women.

BDST: 1524 HRS, FEB 09, 2015