Indians protest against the rape attack. NEW DELHI, Feb 9 ( agencies): Police in northern India are hunting for suspects wanted over the gang rape and murder of a mentally ill woman.
The 28-year-old woman went missing on 1 February in the town of Rohtak in Haryana state, where she was seeking hospital treatment. Her mutilated body was found in a field Wednesday. A post mortem examination has confirmed multiple sexual assaults.
Meanwhile 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.
The 20-year-old told police the guide offered to show her around Jaipur on his motorbike on Sunday before attacking her in an isolated part of the city in the evening, the officer said.
"We have received a complaint from a Japanese tourist alleging rape by a local man yesterday (Sunday)," Dharam Chand Jain, police inspector general for Jaipur district, told AFP.
The latest incident comes a month after five men were arrested in eastern India charged with kidnapping and repeatedly raping a Japanese student.
In Haryana, hundreds of people blocked a highway and held candlelight vigils in protest against the rape and murder of the mentally ill woman.
Police said they had some "crucial leads" and were hoping to arrest some suspects soon.
"Preliminary investigations point to aggravated sexual assault and murder. Seven police teams are probing the case," senior police official Shashank Anand told BBC Hindi.
Reports said that the woman, who was from Nepal, had travelled to Rohtak a few months ago to live with her sister and receive treatment for depression at a local hospital.
"In Nepal too she kept falling in and out of depression. Last year, we finally decided to get her regular treatment," the woman's brother told The Indian Express.
"A friend suggested a doctor in Nainital [in Uttarakhand state] and since then she was on medication. I had purchased all her medicines when she told me she wanted to live with our sister for a while."
She went missing from her sister's home and her body was found in a field by a highway, some 18km (11 miles) away, police said.
The post mortem revealed that stones, blades and sticks were forced inside her during the attack, reports say.
The woman had suffered "severe injuries" and her "heart and lung were missing", Dr SK Dhattarawal, who carried out the examination, told BBC Hindi.
he victim's sister, who led the protests in Rohtak, has accused the police of being slow in registering a complaint, a charge the police have denied.
"Police have been slow to arrest the perpetrators, they should be arrested immediately and hanged," she said.
"I want justice for my sister, they have been brutal to her, it's just spine chilling," she added.
Scrutiny of sexual violence in India has grown since the 2012 gang rape and murder of a student on a Delhi bus.
The government tightened laws on sexual violence in 2013 after widespread protests following the attack.
Correspondents, however, say tougher laws have failed to bring down the number of rape cases and a series of high-profile crimes have taken place since then.
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